From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 07:31:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D847310656A9 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924B78FC15 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-149.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.149]:53398) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NAIfM-00033A-2O; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:39:56 +1100 Message-ID: <4B025136.3060809@ish.com.au> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:31:02 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091108 Shredder/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolay Denev References: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:31:07 -0000 On 17/11/09 6:21 PM, Nikolay Denev wrote: > 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. I don't believe this is the issue since FreeBSD already comes with zfs.ko and opensolaris.ko already built by default. That is, it includes the CDDL code from ZFS itself. The boot loader is a FreeBSD invention (although probably built with pieces of code from the ZFS module). Ari Maniatis -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A