Hi Robert, thanks for the quick reply! On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:07:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > 2011/2/13 Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>: > >> - Multi-device arrays are not supported. If they're RAID1 (mirror), > >> we work around this by selecting the first member and using that for > >> boot later. For array types where more than one disk is needed, GRUB > >> can't boot. Using a separate /boot can resolve this, however. > > > > Excellent that you confirm it working. However running through the Squeeze > > d-i I find no option to select this. And trying to find some howto for > > making this work manually in a Debian/kFreeBSD I did find nothing but > > the according FreeBSD docs that would be using gpart (which is not available > > in Debian). > > Neither the installer nor the GRUB that shipped with squeeze support > multi-device arrays. Just as I thought. > Latest GRUB (in upstream Bazaar, not sure if trunk or some branch) > supports multi-device ZFS however. Not even the one in unstable/experimental? Will that be packaged in the "near" future or will I have to make my own deb for now? > > So how do you reckon the RAID1 configuration should be set up? > > You can setup a single-disk zpool and convert it to zRAID1 > afterwards (with "zpool attach"). Sure so. I had already tried to do that but find GRUB falling apart once I do so with the default Squeeze version. > >> - Gzip compression is not supported. [...] > > > > Great! What's the current status of this? > > It's supported now (in upstream). Yay! Cool! ;-) -- Cheers, Kilian
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