Re: ZFS patches.

From: Duncan Young <duncan.young_at_pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:53 +1000
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:51:52 pm 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.

I'm not so sure about mirroring /boot.  Personally I don't.  It only changes occasionally
(then rsync will do), and if one changes it and the machine won't boot, one already
has an immediate bootable backup.  The only file which tends to be changed in normal
use is zfs/zpool.cache.

regards

Duncan
Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 19:41:00 UTC

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