Re: Booting off raidz *mostly* work

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Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Date
25 Sep 2009 20:57:32
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Re: Booting off raidz *mostly* work
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Am 25.09.2009 um 17:41 schrieb Ollivier Robert:

> According to Ollivier Robert:
>> By popular demand:
>> http://www.keltia.net/howtos/zfsboot
>
> I've succeeded in booting off raidz!
>
> There is a remaining issue with /boot/loader getting zfs errors at
> boot time
> resulting in loader.conf not being read. After setting the various
> variables
> manually (vm.kmem_size, vfs.root.mountfrom) and loading zfs, it
> works...
>
> http://static.keltia.net/download/raidz-boot.png
>
> I've updated the howto to reflect that.
>
> Any help in tackling the last issue is welcome.

In my various experiments, I sometimes got a setup that would load
many, but not all files. However, re-running the script to re-create
the zpool, or copying files to the filesystem would make any
successive reboots not work anymore.


Stefan

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