[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS mirror or stripe support on boot volume

Edward Ned Harvey openindiana at nedharvey.com
Mon Feb 14 23:13:23 UTC 2011


> From: Alex Smith (K4RNT) [mailto:shadowhunter at gmail.com]
> 
> I'm looking at setting up OI in a VirtualBox instance, allowing direct
> access to two disks.
> 
> Is it possible, using the existing OI installer, to set up the boot
> volume to be a ZFS stripe or mirror? I have two 80GB IDE disks (which
> I may set up as SCSI controlled in VBox) on an openSUSE host.

Definitely works for mirrors.  During installation, just select 2 disks and they're automatically mirrored (last I knew.)  

Last I knew, striping or raidz'ing the root vdev was not allowed.




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