On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: > After some digging we discovered that this was likely due to the fact that > the BIOS only enumerates the first 12 disks and this machine has more than > that in the root zpool which was a striped raidz2 volume. This in turn means > that the bootcode > can't complete and hence the machine can't boot.
As far as I can tell, ZFS best practices guides recommend no more than nine drives in a group/pool. Putting more than that into a pool, much less something you are trying to boot from, seems like a fine experiment to make but is not something which I would rely upon... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
