On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > Of the hoops that I had to jump through to install FreeBSD 8 on a ZFS raidz, > the least inconsequential was rebuilding loader with ZFS support. Truly, > truly simple. There is also no need to build a different installation image, > everything can be done from the fixit console on the installation media. You > also don't rebuild the system, you rebuild one tiny part of it, just the > loader. This is truly simple, I agree with you. But I have a ZFS-boot mirror and I upgraded to 8.0-RC3 recently and my server didn't reboot because I forgot the loader stuff. Of course, this wasn't a production server and I took some precautions, but it would be more convienient not to worry about such pointless detail. That's why changing the bootloader to be able to have ZFS built-in is, to my mind, a good thing. We can simplify the way ZFS is managed in Freebsd by such simple things. -- Pierre MassatReceived on Wed Nov 18 2009 - 16:53:59 UTC
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