Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT

On 17 Nov, 2009, at 07:10 , Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

> Is it possible that this flag be set to YES in the FreeBSD 8.0 branch before final release? I don't understand if there are any downsides to doing this, but it certainly would help enormously all those following freebsd-update binary updates and trying to boot directly from ZFS.
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> Needless to say this request is borne from the frustration of killing a server going from RC2 to RC3 and having freebsd-update overwrite our /boot/loader file with a non-ZFS aware version.
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> I'm rather concerned that we'll kill it again for every release we forget about this issue. We'll look at hacking rc.shutdown to perform a test of some sort to help remind us in the short term, but even nicer is if this change could be made, or at least for the freebsd-update binary builds.
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> Thanks
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> Ari
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I've also thought about that, but I guess one of the issues is that this way
FreeBSD will by default load CDDL-ed code, which may not be desirable.
Probably a compromise would be to build two loaders by default, one with zfs support and the standard one.

P.S.: It may be late for 8.0-REL but I think this should happen some day.

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