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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:18:43 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: boot from ZFS: which pool types use?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042216510.2446@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042208370.2446@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> Now, looking at zfsboot.c, couldn't we (for finding /boot/zfsloader suitable 
> for us) loop over, say, top-level datasets in pools we have, in abcense of 
> special property?  As for me, this should plug the most annoying mistakes...

And followup:

for ufs/fdisk, one could easily drop in the boot process and switch to other 
disk, slice, partitiona and even loader.  Not that it's (at least easily) 
achievable with zfsloader...

And, not, unfortunately, I have no patches to apply....

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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