Hi there, I'm currently setting up a new system to my lab. 4 SATA drives would be turned into the main file system (ZFS?) running on a soft raid (raid-z?).
My main target is reliability, my experience with Linux SoftRaid was catastrophic and the array could no be restored after some testing simulating power failures (thank god I did the tests before relying on that...) For what I've seen so far, Solaris cannot boot from a raid-z system. Is that correct? In this case, what needs to be out of the array? Example, on a Linux system, I could set the /boot to be on a old 256MB USB flash. As long the boot loader and kernel were out of the array the system would boot. What are the requirements for booting from the USB but loading a system on the array? Second, how do I proceed during the Install process? I know it's a little bit weird but I must confess I'm doing it on purpose. :-) I thank you in advance This message posted from opensolaris.org
