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

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 5:24 PM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>

I think only the text installer allows it.

>
> 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
>
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