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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:04 -0800
From:      Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com>
To:        krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject:   Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2010/1/27 Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
>> <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > Ross> That seems to have been the problem.
>> >
>> > Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs
>> > to be
>> > precisely followed, without deviation, even if you don't understand it
>> > or
>> > think it's important. :)
>>
>> Yes! But because I was extra anal retentive this time around, I've run
>> into some more trouble. I have 2 disks and I only added one when I
>> created the zroot pool. Now that my system is booted I figured I could
>> just go 'zpool add -f zroot /dev/gpt/disk1' but I get the error
>> message: "cannot add to 'zroot': root pool cannot have multiple vdevs
>> or seperate logs".
>>
>> I prepared the second disk in a similar manner to the first: "gpart -t
>> freebsd-zfs -l disk1 ad6".
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> u need to attach the drive create a mirror, adding creates a new vdev ie
> creates a stripe aka raid0
>

I didn't want a mirror though, I wanted a stripe.

I still don't understand why what I'm doing isn't working.



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