estrabd said:I am about to dive into setting up an all ZFS system using FreeBSD 9.0 REL. I have a Dell Poweredge 1750 with 3 identical 73 GB SCSI disks - so I plan on using all 3 as a single disk. :stud
estrabd said:Well,
I just tried to do an all-root ZFS RAIDZ1 (3 identical SCSIs) set up (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE), and I am not sure if mileage varies here, but after I got throught the installation part, I was unable to carry on the instructions beyond modifying /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf due to zfs/zpool failing. I am not sure why this is since they worked fine during the partitioning phase.
estrabd said:Now I am installing plain old UFS on da0 and plan to do a 2-disk mirror using da1 and da2. I wish it would have worked out - I am still open to the 3-way RAIDZ1 if there are better instructions or if there is a workaround to the zfs/zpool issue I was seeing.