From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 20:49:01 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 BD94E1065672 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:49:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp126.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp126.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [77.238.184.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15C338FC15 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 63617 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2009 20:22:19 -0000 Received: from xdsl-81-173-236-126.netcologne.de (se@81.173.236.126 with plain) by smtp126.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2009 20:22:19 +0000 GMT X-Yahoo-SMTP: iDf2N9.swBDAhYEh7VHfpgq0lnq. X-YMail-OSG: q3RiWL4VM1nRdm9HcyhPfcr2FQTvf15Gwh69fIBgWU6UNUbQ5Sado_77DORai_gvWHnWPtV3ugR_Tb3jMu0XfSqV3buxJhCrgClC1Z8rg0icq7v9NjqKQoQ7ovjN55smVuIqfMGCfS5DkWe9mcly1LGN6wX6sFJ1B08BnD.lEczTl4MxzUk9pO4dUg3X_FB8vauTll_Kl0D2eLM7iaFbssxHnjsGk6TlpFvEfHuRlF_uPmnHtdH.EqDeni28ZtSH X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4AFDBFFB.3070009@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:22:19 +0100 From: Stefan Esser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Noland References: <4AD710D6.70404@buchlovice.org> <1258087983.2303.23.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <1258122354.2303.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1258122354.2303.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.97b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Radek_Val=E1=B9ek?= , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matt Reimer Subject: Re: GPT boot with ZFS RAIDZ "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" 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: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:49:01 -0000 On 13.11.2009 15:25, Robert Noland wrote: > I think we have missed the boat, but I'll talk to re@ and see if we > can get it in. The patch fixed GPT/ZFS booting for me, too. It would be good to have it in 8.0 (since it is definitely required to boot from ZFS pools with non-trivial sizes), and does not affect anybody not trying to boot this way. OTOH, it since you cannot just install FreeBSD on pure ZFS from sysinstall, it might be sufficient to prominently warn about this problem and point at the required patch, to prevent foot-shooting. But having this patch that has been successfully tested by a number of people that suffered from the GPT/ZFS boot problem looks highly preferable to me ... Regards, STefan