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On Monday 10 November 2008 09:47:46 am Joao Barros wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote:
> > There are patches available to allow [booting from ZFS]...
>
> Can you point out those patches? Thx

I may have mis-spoken. I believe it is being worked on but I don't have 
any pointers to specific code.

What I had in mind was http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot, which allows the 
root partition to be on ZFS but still requires a small UFS /boot.

JN