Well can't we build a boot loader off of there specification document? Also, we probably need to improve the boot loader I think something to that effect was in the suggested projects list. Thanks to everyone who helped make a ZFS root possible. It's not so bad having a UFS boot file system. I'm switching today :-) -- Ali Mashtizadeh علی مشتی زاده On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:26PM +0100, Joao Barros wrote: > > I was looking at how Solaris got support for booting off ZFS and the > > patch to GRUB to support it. > > Is it feasible for FreeBSD's boot loader? What would be the main > > issue: technical or licensing? > > I don't know if there are licensing issues, probably yes if we would > like to add ZFS support to our standard loader. > > The biggest problem I see is lack of motivation on my side. Really. Why > someone would like to keep kernel on ZFS so much? This would be a huge > amount of work, I expect, and what we get in turn? On Solaris you can > only boot from a single-disk pool or from a mirrored pool. Is it really > worth the effort for us? I much more prefer to spend the time working on > something more useful than that and keep my small /boot/ file system > protected by gmirror on UFS - with this approach there are no > limitations - we can keep our root file system on compressed RAID-Z > pool. > > Of course if someone is willing to try working on this, I'm happy to > help. > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl > pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! > >Received on Sun May 13 2007 - 15:57:01 UTC
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