multiple vdevs on boot ZFS pool

[Aristedes Maniatis]

Is the 'issue' that the error message can be ignored, or that you can't boot in 9.2?

Thanks
Ari

On 9/06/2015 12:03pm, Freddie Cash wrote:
> It's a 9.2 "issue", fixed in 9.3. In running 2 mirror vdevs in the only pool on a 9.3 system. It's a bootable pool, and I've treated booting from all 4 disks (changing boot order in BIOS) without issues.
> 
> Typos courtesy of my phone.
> 
> On Jun 8, 2015 6:30 PM, "Aristedes Maniatis" <ari at ish.com.au <mailto:ari at ish.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm running 9.2-release on a machine and when I try to expand the mirror of two disks with another two disk mirror, I get an error that I cannot add another vdev to the boot pool.
> 
>     I know this used to be an issue some time ago, but I see articles about bypassing the check by unsetting bootfs attribute temporarily. That seems dangerous however and I don't want to create an unbootable array.
> 
>     Is this error really still an error in 9.2? I certainly have a 10.1 system which boots from a 3 vdev array. Do I need to upgrade this system to allow for booting from such an array?
> 
>     Thanks
>     Ari
> 
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