On 10 Nov 2008, at 19:57, Joao Barros wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, John Nielsen <lists_at_jnielsen.net> > wrote: >> On Monday 10 November 2008 09:47:46 am Joao Barros wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, John Nielsen <lists_at_jnielsen.net> >>> wrote: >>>> There are patches available to allow [booting from ZFS]... >>> >>> Can you point out those patches? Thx >> >> I may have mis-spoken. I believe it is being worked on but I don't >> have >> any pointers to specific code. >> >> What I had in mind was http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot, which >> allows the >> root partition to be on ZFS but still requires a small UFS /boot. > > Yes, there is an item in the wiki for zfsboot with a big finger > pointing at Doug Rabson (cc'd) but I don't know the status of the > task. > I was using the /boot on small ufs partition method to boot my raidz > but upgraded my machine and added a 1TB disk to the mix. I'll be > booting from a usb pen with root on zfs. > As soon as zfsboot works I'll ditch the usb pen. > > Doug, can you provide some status update on zfsboot? Do you need help > on something? I implemented zfsboot for simple disks and mirrors and also collections of simple disks and/or mirrors. This work is in pjd's perforce tree and will end up in current when that tree is ready to commit. If I manage to find some spare time before then, I hope to add raidz and raidz2 support to it. The key problem here as in so many other things is lack of time :(Received on Tue Nov 11 2008 - 07:53:23 UTC
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