Thanks Matt for the patch. I used it with 8.0RC3 release. I installed FreeBSD under Linux (KVM) my 3x500GB drives were mounted as a scsi drives. Installation went smoothly but when I rebooted FreeBSD guest it hang as usual ;) with "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable", well it also spit out some LBA errors for the first time. I was a little disappointed, because I've been trying for three weeks to replace my Debian system with broken ext3 fs with FreeBSD on raidz. But I thought to myself I'll give it a try, and run FreeBSD native. To my suprise it welcomed me with login prompt. Once again thanks for the patch. It would be good idea to merge it with final release. On 11/13/09, Stefan Esser <se_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 13.11.2009 15:25, Robert Noland wrote: >> I think we have missed the boat, but I'll talk to re_at_ and see if we >> can get it in. > > The patch fixed GPT/ZFS booting for me, too. It would be good to have > it in 8.0 (since it is definitely required to boot from ZFS pools with > non-trivial sizes), and does not affect anybody not trying to boot > this way. OTOH, it since you cannot just install FreeBSD on pure ZFS > from sysinstall, it might be sufficient to prominently warn about this > problem and point at the required patch, to prevent foot-shooting. > > But having this patch that has been successfully tested by a number > of people that suffered from the GPT/ZFS boot problem looks highly > preferable to me ... > > Regards, STefan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Sat Nov 14 2009 - 08:15:55 UTC
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