Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

[Grant]

> I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID  from
> an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish
> one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton
> (wiki) information page as such:
>
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS+RAID
>
> I know I have struggled with completing this sort of installation
> several time in the last 6 months. I'm sure this (proposed) wiki page
> would get lots of updates from the Gentoo user community. Surely,
> I'm not qualified to do this, or it would have already been on the
> gentoo wiki....
>
> Much of the older X + RAID pages are deprecated, when one considers
> the changes that accompany such an installation ( Grub2, UUID, fstab,
> partitioning of drives, Kernel options, just to name a few). We're
> talking about quite a bit of deviation from the standard handbook
> installation, fraught with hidden, fatal mis-steps.

Any important points or key concepts a ZFS newbie should remember when
installing with it for the first time?

- Grant