On 03/ 3/10 11:39 AM, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * 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.
The last known status of this was posted Dec. 2009: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-December/034791.html -- Shawn Walker
