Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:05:21 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Radek_Val=E1=B9ek?= <valin@buchlovice.org> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT boot with ZFS RAIDZ "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" Message-ID: <4AFE72D1.5020902@buchlovice.org> In-Reply-To: <4AFDBFFB.3070009@freebsd.org> References: <4AD710D6.70404@buchlovice.org> <f383264b0911121654g3d15690eq4e6c92355e5368b6@mail.gmail.com> <1258087983.2303.23.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <f383264b0911122215h61d4d54as2d9511b6896a125f@mail.gmail.com> <1258122354.2303.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4AFDBFFB.3070009@freebsd.org>
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Stefan Esser napsal(a): > 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 > I can confirm that the patch is working for me too, and I'm able now to boot from raidz/raidz2 pool after rewriting loader.conf/loader/kernel. I agree with Stefan, having it in 8.0-RELEASE would be good, catch the boat :) Big thnx to Matt, great work from all.
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