On 03/03/2010 12:10, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Why are you using any sort of hardware raid. Why not just let ZFS > manage the disks in a mirrored configuration? I'm pretty sure that's > recommended. > > Cheers, > > Are there any plans to enable booting from software ZFS RAID? So far it's not possible on OpenSolaris (it's implemented in FreeBSD for example). Currently, in order to enable RAID-Z one needs at least 5 disks (for example 4 for RAID, and one to boot from). This is not comfortable, since root pool can't be on the RAID too (so basically RAID is left only for some extra storage and not for a whole system).
Thanks, Hillel.
