From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 11:57:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B070A20F for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f52.google.com (mail-wg0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47C1623CC for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id b13so2587240wgh.11 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:57:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=O/JkrxsdgM6rcUlaRI7Rhe30Vv0HMlfW580WyzPWrrk=; b=hFoPKBPaAxyKg8z75aIXki5L50GFXSc2kJ8gf8vhCSVjQUXZtZKfMsvkm5i+lajQvx KFV9z2pHjtu28lB03MUOMl5bcRRDoXREdtHG/wyzQ4EAlQNXC4vQn36p2sqsnIQwZYG8 H/MaKk1eG/lOUbAjWJiZ/Qlkt5VZKPrKTlz4mfX3QqU9QSSxTnmYz6M5iqu4yoeFV6vw Bwb+GmuKZR8mdZeaGaTpBTVN47vScBYXHKL10FGUAMKDTWzAb7OxHwvM7XCdoASKBMRV 4uVCUa5jkoZCYI+BPr/I38S5HyR9/tYd3Lwm+ZeuD4YEtWwznA5zJOs7z7w7prTWgQDX zkLQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkt9+TuSKZeeENkvcGDXjRwDtJczmX5dJeYNukHckWVkJdBaAK6TaPZB7WqlEHtAZFdhqQs MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.60.35 with SMTP id e3mr3866207wjr.12.1402660663696; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.13.242 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:57:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201406061624.s56GOOx7015821@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <53932846.20806@FreeBSD.org> <201406091243.s59Ch55n026817@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <201406091444.s59Eijuh032276@higson.cam.lispworks.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:57:43 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is ZFS Multi-vdev root pool configuration discovery supported? From: Olav Gjerde To: Tom Evans Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD FS X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:57:52 -0000 I have two vdevs with three disks mirrors, booting from root just fine from all of them with FreeBSD 9.2! I have done as Larry Rosenman and installed boot code on all 6 drives. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Tom Evans wrote= : > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Martin Simmons wro= te: >>>> 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 boo= t >>> off any of them. >> >> OK, but that sounds like a configuration with a single vdev. I was aski= ng >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" --=20 Olav Gr=C3=B8n=C3=A5s Gjerde