Dell PowerEdge r210 II

[Matthew Seaman]

On 09/02/2017 08:07, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, February 08, 2017 a las 10:40:22PM +0000, Matthew Seaman escribió:
> 
>> On 08/02/2017 19:32, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> It will be the 1st time I install ZFS and will just follow our Wiki for
>>> this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot 
>>> Or are there any other hints to tweak it for poudriere?
>>
>> Don't do that -- the information in the Wiki is a bit outdated now.
>> Instead, just use the installer to setup a ZFS system for you.  This
>> will build you a system set up for use with boot environments etc. etc.
> 
> To install CURRENT on my hardware (netbook, laptop, ...) I use normally
> my own USB stick, created with make-memstick-amd64.sh, boot from it and
> do the partitioning with 'bsdinstall', but interrupt this when it goes
> to install. Then I mount the new (empty) partition to /mnt and do the
> installation with:
> 
> # mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
> # make installworld  DESTDIR=/mnt
> # make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt
> # make distrib-dirs  DESTDIR=/mnt
> # make distribution  DESTDIR=/mnt
> ...
> 
> Is this as well possible for ZFS? And how can I use both disks ad0 and
> ad1, both with ZFS, but not used as 'mirror'?

I believe you can select both drives in the installer and just tell it
to stripe over both of them.

Failing that, you can install to just one drive, and then once you've
got the system up and running, you can add the other drive as a second
vdev to extend your zpool.

Not sure about being able to break into a shell at an appropriate point
in the install sequence though -- I've never wanted to.  I think it's
possible.  Shouldn't be too time consuming to run a few experiments with
the install media though.

Personally I wouldn't run a zpool with striped hard drives as you are
proposing: if either of those drives fails then your entire zpool will
be destroyed.  However, it's at your own risk, and if you think it
acceptable, then go ahead.

	Cheers,

	Matthew




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