Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:40:49 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Karli Sj??berg <karli.sjoberg@slu.se> Cc: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>, FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: multiple vdevs on boot ZFS pool Message-ID: <20150609164049.GB29089@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <1433829412.25293.41.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se> References: <55763CF1.1020100@ish.com.au> <CAOjFWZ7adY-O4TfA9kKNN89yNbgODNOiO0krJED-1Az2mAt%2B0g@mail.gmail.com> <55765939.4090503@ish.com.au> <1433829412.25293.41.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se>
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:56:27AM +0000, Karli Sj??berg wrote: > tis 2015-06-09 klockan 13:10 +1000 skrev Aristedes Maniatis: > > Is the 'issue' that the error message can be ignored, or that you can't boot in 9.2? > > The error message can be ignored. Just unset the bootfs property > temporarily, add the disks and then reset bootfs. > > Don??t forget to partition the disks with a "freebsd-boot" partition, > bootcode that, the zfs partition should be aligned to 1MiB and use gnop > to force "ashift=12" for the vdev. Ari should really upgrade to 9.3 at least. 9.2 isn't receiving security fixes any more (as of Dec 31 2014). If that fixes the zfs issue at the same time so much the better. Regards, Gary > > > > Thanks > > Ari > > > > On 9/06/2015 12:03pm, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > It's a 9.2 "issue", fixed in 9.3. In running 2 mirror vdevs in the only pool on a 9.3 system. It's a bootable pool, and I've treated booting from all 4 disks (changing boot order in BIOS) without issues. > > > > > > Typos courtesy of my phone. > > > > > > On Jun 8, 2015 6:30 PM, "Aristedes Maniatis" <ari@ish.com.au <mailto:ari@ish.com.au>> wrote: > > > > > > I'm running 9.2-release on a machine and when I try to expand the mirror of two disks with another two disk mirror, I get an error that I cannot add another vdev to the boot pool. > > > > > > I know this used to be an issue some time ago, but I see articles about bypassing the check by unsetting bootfs attribute temporarily. That seems dangerous however and I don't want to create an unbootable array. > > > > > > Is this error really still an error in 9.2? I certainly have a 10.1 system which boots from a 3 vdev array. Do I need to upgrade this system to allow for booting from such an array? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Ari > > > > > > > > > -- > > > --------------------------> > > > Aristedes Maniatis > > > ish > > > http://www.ish.com.au > > > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia > > > phone +61 2 9550 5001 <tel:%2B61%202%209550%205001> fax +61 2 9550 4001 <tel:%2B61%202%209550%204001> > > > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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