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Subject: Re: Proposed Enhancements to the EFI booting
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org>
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On 16/08/2017 07:15, Warner Losh wrote:
> If you want to boot ZFS, it can be encoded as File('ZFS') or
> File('ZFS:pool'). It's all OS specific.

Just a note that it would be nice to be able to select a specific
filesystem within a ZFS pool as well.  That would provide a more robust
alternative to zfsbootcfg on EFI systems.

-- 
Andriy Gapon