On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:11:37 +0200 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > This patch does include ZFS boot support (for i386 only. Look in > sys/boot/i386/zfsboot and boot/zfs) I was unable to make it work though, but > I was able to install a ZFS-supporting loader, by building the loader with > LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=yes . > However, this feature is a bit undocumented yet, and it didn't work correctly > for me. But you can always test it out. I'm using zfsboot on my note PC, and not using UFS. I know many problems about it:-). 1. zpool configuration is too limited, only single and mirror usable. If you want to zfsboot, you can't use RAIDZ, striping and cache(zpool add ... cache ...):-(. 2. On some environment (old BIOS?), zfsboot1 can't chain to zfsboot2. Because, by size (512bytes), zfsboot1 didn't support CHS mode. 3. Yes, a bit undocumented. So you must be careful. 4. I tried to test about zfsboot supported liveCD, but I can't make it yet. Because zfsbootable loader can't boot from CD. SEE ALSO: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2008-July/004895.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/125878Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 14:32:32 UTC
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