Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:04:39 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot problem on HP P410i Smart Array Message-ID: <7F54B772-12D4-426C-A1D6-AA559128228B@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <5345C38B.3010500@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAAG5QCs0G1ztH715j5pnsFmne30xZwUT5o_YkQW9k1dDc-=-Nw@mail.gmail.com> <201303191220.34088.jhb@freebsd.org> <515DA760.8000101@FreeBSD.org> <201304041316.12617.jhb@freebsd.org> <515DC008.9060108@FreeBSD.org> <A7BB3B12-AE6F-4F3E-9324-710A55C8B395@ultra-secure.de> <5345C02D.2070603@FreeBSD.org> <C611E620-4641-4BDA-BF14-1EC83A04947A@ultra-secure.de> <5345C38B.3010500@FreeBSD.org>
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Am 10.04.2014 um 00:02 schrieb Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>: > On 09/04/2014 22:52, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an option. >> >> It’s slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO... > > Uh... it only has to read the kernel+modules from the USB stick one time > while booting. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be any IO inside /boot > unless you login and do stuff in that directory manually. Your root > filesystem would be on the normal hard drives. > > Anyhow the question is moot, since you don't have the same problem I did. > >> No, it’s actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i… > > If you're going to use the RAID controller to generate a virtual drive, > do you really need to use ZFS on top of that? Couldn't you partition > your virtual drive and put / onto a small UFS partition and then make a > zpool on the rest? I don’t want to sacrifice two disks for a RAID1 boot-disk. Normally, I would actually do that, but in this case, the server is a MySQL-slave to a master that has 12 disks - and should the master die, this system has to take over its work.help
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