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SOLVED: FreeBSD 12.2 ZFS: can only boot from disk, mirror, raidz1, raidz2, and raidz3 vdevs
After upgrading a file server to FreeBSD 12.2 this last week we ran into an interesting issue where the boot loader immediately errored with the following...
- booting
- error
- FreeBSD
- GPT
- ZFS
HOW TO: FreeBSD Partition Alignment for RAID, SSDs & 4k Disk Drives
Last Updated January 21st, 2017. This article is really popular, I’ll do my best to keep it up to date! I’ve added notes about enabling TRIM support...
- 4k drive
- FreeBSD
- GPT
- partitioning
- Performance
- RAID
- SSD
HOW TO: Installing FreeBSD with gmirror (software RAID 1) and the GPT partitioning scheme
Last Updated November 14th, 2016: Updated to include that this works under FreeBSD 11.0 as well. Really anything between FreeBSD 9 and 11 should work...
- FreeBSD
- gmirror
- GPT
- partitioning
- RAID