From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 05:09:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9FAF1065678; Thu, 13 May 2010 05:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012828FC0A; Thu, 13 May 2010 05:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id IAA23551; Thu, 13 May 2010 08:09:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1OCQfk-000HAS-1E; Thu, 13 May 2010 08:09:24 +0300 Message-ID: <4BEB8983.407@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 08:09:23 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100321) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Navdeep Parhar References: <4B9FD6E0.5000303@icyb.net.ua> <4BD9B406.5070009@icyb.net.ua> <20100429211525.GA91893@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20100429211525.GA91893@hub.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: few ideas for zfsloader (boot environments) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 05:09:28 -0000 on 30/04/2010 00:15 Navdeep Parhar said the following: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:29:58PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> BTW, it's already possible to use FreeBSD+ZFS+GRUB and have this ability (in some >> form). But it would great to have that "natively". >> >> Couple of useful links: >> http://grub.enbug.org/GRUB2FreeBSDZFS > > ^^^^ Oh, and I hope you weren't crediting me for any of the functionality > explained at the link above..? I have nothing to do with it - it's all > someone else's work. In fact, I'm not too fond of the kfreebsd, > kfreebsd_module, ... style of booting FreeBSD from GRUB2 personally. Oops, I got slightly confused there. BTW, it seems that ZFS support is not 'officially' in GRUB2 yet and you have to patch it? >> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15161.html > > The patch in this email is the only functionality I've ever offered to the > GRUB project. And that's a very useful one, IMO. -- Andriy Gapon