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

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