Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:01:28 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <790a9fff0910220001m3d7df03j127b51d7d0696271@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au>
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> wrote= : > On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote: >> >> Make sure that your loader has zfs support. =A0Setting >> LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=3D"YES" in make.conf will take care of it. > > Does this setting just create /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files in > /boot? We use freebsd-update as a binary update mechanism and I can see > those files already exist (8.0-RC1), so perhaps it isn't needed except to > compile the appropriate boot loader files? > > Also, LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT does not appear in the man page for make.conf. > > Once I have everything figured out, I'll write up a blog post with a set = of > instructions on what I've learnt. Hopefully that will help others in the > future. > You may also want to check out these pages I created on how to setup a Root on ZFS configuration with ZFS using MBR, and GPT (Single, Mirror, RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2) Configurations. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS If anyone notices a problem with them, either let me know or update the wiki page. Scot
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