September 29, 2017

Moving boot from one zpool to another

Leave a Comment / beadm, Disks, FreeBSD, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / September 29, 2017

I’ve been having boot issues with a server containing 20 HDD, all behind HBAs. I have decided to start booting off SSDs. In that previous blog post, there was much speculation about where to mount the new drives, etc. In the meantime, I came up with a solution which did not involve magnets and used […]

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Leave a Comment / Disks, File Systems, FreeBSD, hardware, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / September 29, 2017

For future reference, this is the knew server. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. This recent post outlines the modifications so it boots off a mirror of SSDs. File systems Paritions zpools /var/run/dmesg.boot

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