Installing FreeBSD on Hardware Raid

Luciano Mannucci luciano at vespaperitivo.it
Tue Dec 13 17:52:03 UTC 2016


On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:05:58 +0000
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:

> > When I boot the installation DVD of the 10.3-RELEASE, it sees the
> > single disks instead of the arrays. It destroys the arrays if I let it
> > write to the disks.  
> 
> 	Treat them as single disks, use ZFS and let it manage the storage,
> from the sounds of it what you have is not a real hardware RAID (even if it
> was I'd put it in JBOD mode and let ZFS at the drives).
Many thanks. I think I'll go for it.

Is there a 10.3 version of the installation-on-ZFS howto wiki?

Thanks again,

Luciano.
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