jgreco
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Highly Available Boot Pool Strategy - When you really want the thing to boot.
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Highly Available Boot Pool Strategy - When you really want the thing to boot.
I've pounded a few versions of this out over the years, but I hate explaining over and over.
Due to the design of the average PC BIOS, a boot device that has become corrupted but not failed entirely may prevent booting.
Some of us used to use "hardware" RAID 1 and IR mode controllers in the pre-ZFS days to make sure an SSD failure didn't impair boot. This is good but not perfect, since the "hardware" RAID controller cannot detect corruption. Additionally, this is no longer recommended...
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