On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:11:22PM +0700, OutBackdingo wrote: > Maybe i should have rephrased that. Ive had a running ZFS, i thought as > i was reading your version of the install guide, if the newer code drop > included the boot from ZFS. seems i read it was in the perforce tree, so > i guess ive answered my own qurestion, that it is not in fact in this > patch > > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:51 +0100, Randy Bush wrote: > > OutBackdingo wrote: > > > As in the whole including boot from ZFs, not sure that code is in here > > > yet?? had the boot code been migrated to allow for booting from a ZFS > > > partition?? or are we still in the recommended / or /boot being on UFS > > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/FreeBSD_7.x_on_a_ZFS_pool > > > > i guess you did not follow the url. > > > > boot from zfs is not supported (yet). > > > > imiho, jeremy's instrs should be combined with those on creating sliced > > boot gmirror. > > > > randy I believe it is possible (with or without the patch) to boot purely off of ZFS. The ish.com.au document describes how to do this in "Step Three: solving the ZFS boot problem". https://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs I simply choose not to utilise that method. I'm a bit paranoid about non-UFS root filesystems. My main concern revolves around booting into single-user, which is an important part of the whole build/install world process -- does it actually work with ZFS as a root fs, and if so, is any sort of craziness required to accomplish it? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 18:17:25 UTC
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