[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

[Toomas Soome]

> On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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> It is my understanding that we can now boot from a RAIDZ pool.   Are there any known limitations?     I  looked at the wiki and I didn't see any instructions related to booting from a RAIDZ pool or installing into a RAIDZ pool.
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> It looks pretty straight forward, but there are some details that are not obvious.  In particular the need to create the pool and use the text-install script to install into an existing pool.  That will not create rpool/swap and rpool/dump so the user must run dumpadm and swap to set up dump and swap space.
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> As I am going to be doing this shortly with a RAIDZ2 rpool I thought I should write up the process for the wiki if there is not a How-To already that I missed.
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> Reg
> 

I have not used installer for some time, so I can not tell if or how well the raidz creation will work from installer.

However, there is one very important limitation; please make sure your firmware actually can access at least data disks + one parity, otherwise you will need to relocate disks into accessible slots.

rgds,
toomas