From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 13:07:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF45610656A5 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC7B8FC16 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.175.206.42] (helo=alya) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1P8urm-0004yR-ST; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:07:35 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: Matthew Seaman References: <4CC02B85.1050604@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:07:33 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4CC02B85.1050604@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:01:09 +0100") Message-ID: <05278442@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIOS limitations on size of bootable zpool? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:07:37 -0000 On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:01:09 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Our current > plan is to set up a USB memstick with /boot on it, by adapting the > instructions here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot -- which > isn't ideal as the memstick will be a single point of failure. We always use gmirrored USB sticks. Works like a charm. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve