Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:24:04 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple zdevs in the root zpool? Message-ID: <4CAE4884.8080608@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4CAE3D29.2020309@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4CADA4D5.7080204@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4CAE2D6E.7070100@icyb.net.ua> <4CAE3D29.2020309@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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on 08/10/2010 00:35 Matthew Seaman said the following: > On 07/10/2010 21:28:30, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 07/10/2010 13:45 Matthew Seaman said the following: >>> However, according to my understanding, if you want to boot from a >>> zpool, you can only have one vdev in that pool. >>> >>> But what exactly does this mean? >> >> Yes, exactly, what does that mean? :) >> Where did your understanding come from? >> > > It was from reading posts like this: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-January/211677.html > > Plus the comments in > cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c and > sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_ioctl.c (grep for > the words 'root pool') Hmm, it seems like a protection for limitations of OpenSolaris boot loader that slipped into our sources. I am pretty sure that our boot code can boot such pools without problems. -- Andriy Gapon
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