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Cc: Omer Faruk Sen <omerfsen@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: zfs root partition boot?
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> FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable
> disk.  I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or
> gvinum.  Nothing beats a hardware raid though.
IMHO "hardware" RAID beats nothing. it's mostly crap.

gmirror/gstripe/gconcat works well and always