Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-09-03 Thread Artis Caune
2009/9/1 Jason Garrett : > IMHO, unless you have a NEED to do this with the 8-BETA's I would not > attempt. While I had this working in 8.0-BETA1 upon reboot I would loose > data from entire mountpoints on the root pool. First it was /usr/ports, not > a big deal. Then it was /var/db/pkg.. the syste

Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-09-01 Thread Jason Garrett
IMHO, unless you have a NEED to do this with the 8-BETA's I would not attempt. While I had this working in 8.0-BETA1 upon reboot I would loose data from entire mountpoints on the root pool. First it was /usr/ports, not a big deal. Then it was /var/db/pkg.. the system had no idea what was installed

Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-09-01 Thread Artis Caune
2009/8/30 Doug Poland : > Shutdown, remove ad0 from the virtual machine, > Power on and it see... > > > error 4 lba 4292979877 > error 4 lba 4292979883 > error 4 lba 4292979883 > error 4 lba 4292979882 > ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable > Invalid format I had a similar problem on IBM

Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-08-30 Thread krad
2009/8/30 Ed Jobs > On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:16, Doug Poland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). > > The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can > > on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have b

Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-08-30 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:16, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). > The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can > on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have been unable to > successfully get

Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-08-29 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have been unable to successfully get a system up and running with my technique. So far, this