> There are patches available to allow this but frankly I don't see the > appeal. I think it makes much more sense to have / (including /boot) be a > regular UFS2 filesystem on a small partition. If something goes wrong you > can boot from a CD or single-user and not have to worry about getting your > ZFS pools back online before you can even start troubleshooting the system. FWIW let me just put the vote in there that to me, personally, there is a lot of appeal. For recovery, I don't find minimalistic /:s or fixit CD:s very useful anyway (in fact I don't think I have ever fixed a system that way; if there is some trouble that prevents booting, I tend to end up booting a separate fully installed system from another drive or similar to have full flexibility). If you're using ZFS because you want to avoid certain failure conditions (such as "oh, there was a bad block during reconstruction and my mirror got blown away even though it was a 4-way mirror"), it is nice to have that applied to your *entire* system instead of having a small root partition or boot partition that is somehow exempted. Especially since these are the ones you really need to boot the system. I appreciate that supporting direct booting off of ZFS is not easy to implement, and this is not any kind of complaint. I just want to respond to the claim that there is no appeal to having it supported. I doubt I am alone in thinking it would be great to boot natively off ZFS, even if not every one under the sun agrees :) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller_at_infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey_at_scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller_at_infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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