Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

From: John Hay <jhay_at_meraka.org.za>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:37:32 +0200
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not
> > really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple
> > disks/partitions. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, so it is
> > intuitive, but I also haven't spend much time thinking about it. We
> > needed UFS and that is what I implemented. It took me much more time
> > than I expected anyway:)
> 
> Maybe reserve some area inside zfs boot2 and put relevant information there.
> Similarly to how boot0cfg modifies data within boot0.
> The information could include "nextboot-pool" and "nextboot-fs".

nextboot-fs sounds nice. I use the bootfs property of zpool and it would
be nice if one can override it from the boot2 commandline.

John
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John Hay -- jhay_at_meraka.csir.co.za / jhay_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Mon Sep 20 2010 - 11:37:35 UTC

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