Comments | astralblue: Adding a new disk to a ZFS root pool on FreeBSD

astralblue

Adding a new disk to a ZFS root pool on FreeBSD

Oct 28, 2010 17:11

Again, this is mostly for my own reference, but if you have the same problem that I had, this article may prove useful to you as well.

OpenSolaris (from which FreeBSD's ZFS codebase came from) has this limitation: The “root” pool (i.e. the one that contains a boot filesystem, specified in the bootfs pool property) can only be a simple pool or a ( Read more... )

freebsd, zfs

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dude you saved my ass anonymous June 20 2013, 02:00:25 UTC

I luff you 5 ever

sadok June 20 2013, 10:05:36 UTC

Excellent! Thanks =)

Perfect! anonymous January 15 2014, 15:05:28 UTC

Tested on FreeBSD 9.2
I still wonder why on earth this exists in 9.2 up-to-date version..

Thank for sharing!

Thanks! ext_2410870 February 2 2014, 19:55:13 UTC

This was very helpful. Thanks!

thanks, helped me! anonymous March 2 2014, 23:29:52 UTC

Thanks a bunch. Went smoothly to add another mirror set to my root pool on a FreeBSD based mail server.