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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:34:55 -0600
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Cc:        Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Build a separate ZFS-enabled loader.zfs
Message-ID:  <1260207295.2315.267.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B1318D9.5030405@ish.com.au>
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On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:59 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 29/11/09 5:05 AM, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:29 +0700, Edho P Arief wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:42 PM, John Baldwin<jhb@freebsd.org>  wrote:
> >>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 1:27:32 pm Robert Noland wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:17 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, I made a few changes, but this is tested and working for zfs.  I
> >>>> opted to change the loader name to zfsloader, since we tend to prefix
> >>>> rather than suffix boot/loader bits and I thought that loader.zfs.old
> >>>> looked ugly.  The following should be a complete patch against -CURRENT.
> >>>> Note that you do need to reinstall bootcode (zfsboot/gptzfsboot) for
> >>>> this to boot the correct loader.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/0001-Create-a-seperate-zfs-enabled-loader.patch
> >>>>
> >>>> robert.
> >>>
> >>> Looks ok to me, commit!
> >>>
> >>
> >> will this merged back to 8.0-stable?
> >
> > I plan on it, but the big win won't come until it makes it into a
> > release or at least a snapshot where you can just install everything
> > from CD/DVD.
> >
> > robert.
> 
> 
> The big win for us (and many others) will come when freebsd-update picks it up. I assume that means it would have to make it into the errata or security patches for 8.0? Otherwise we'll only see it in 8.1.
> 
> Ari

FYI, this is now merged to 7/8 STABLE.

robert.

> 
> 
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD




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