* Hillel Lubman (shtetldik at gmail.com) wrote: > 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).
There aren't any plans that I'm aware of, but then I don't work in the ZFS group. You'll probably have better luck asking on zfs-discuss. Cheers, -- Glenn
