On 03/ 3/10 10:39 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. > > >
At this time, there is no ongoing work on booting from RAID-Z. It's on our list of things we'd like to implement someday, but hasn't made it high enough on the priority list yet. Lori
