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Here are my notes on how to configure a full ZFS-based FreeBSD system. In this particular case, the system is "FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Thu May 12 15:34:46 UTC 2011" and it runs on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 (Intel Atom N450) with 1GB of RAM. This is just a P.O.C. as it is said that ZFS would required at least 2GB of RAM to perform nicely.
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I had so much pain to make it work so here is how to have a ZFS root with a raidz pool on 5 disks, specially with OVH without any console or kvm to debug the boot process. The server has 5 disks that I put in raidz and boot on it, but this should apply to most installation. gpart destroy -F ada0 gpart destroy -F ada1 gpart destroy -F ada2 gpart destroy -F ada3 gpart destroy -F ada4 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart create -s gpt ada1 gpart create -s gpt ada2 gpart create -s gpt ada3 gpart create -s gpt ada4...
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I already managed to boot FreeBSD from ZFS ; a single disk ZFS pool. Now, let's see how to boot FreeBSD-9-RELEASE from a ZFS pool made of 3 disks using RAIDZ configuration. I used the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso CD-ROM image.
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