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Subject: Re: Is ZFS Multi-vdev root pool configuration discovery supported?
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:48:04 -0500, Larry Rosenman said:
>>
>> For the record I've been booting off a 6-disk raidZ1 pool for a LONG
>> time.
>>
>> I have boot code on all 6 disks, and can rearrange them at will and boot
>> off any of them.
>
> OK, but that sounds like a configuration with a single vdev.  I was asking
> about something like RAID10 with muliple top level vdevs.
>
> __Martin

IIRC I was booting from a multi-vdev root, with 6 disk raidz in each
vdev (but I'm not anymore, I put in a proper mirrored root pool).

Cheers

Tom