From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 19:57:13 2008 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 59F721065679 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:57:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA028FC16 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:57:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so3595924fkk.11 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:57:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=tVDMM8A/6d4YmE2eSd2QHR6V7YEdiqGDYCHos7NfbmA=; b=OLo4PbUddr81iHtnuMCU/5ZNQBPFGt6R8qIAiIZSyqr2joRdXybpQ3p9gTUfUHUaRN yjq1KNZuPPrcsIobgJFAnE2GEsAHo2YZc4MTn+vuRd99IjFQCHG/2hFPP2CUKx2NdXDi T4AIc8DeLr5Yn6Es/YQNt4lSuE5kS6jo5qhhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=pA0mXeOxdawnyZHCf6HPy7TaXV8sSBoWiXzQ7BhhhgtighrlzyYBReGN9q6j9Tgf1p 9Mdm+gRidINSuQWRwbIT9mSLt23d7aHo40EaYjbbhcTeQhibXqqCl3LuGLVruxTtGZrN /ERLzxBxQfOix4+xYXBcqP5Cz85RhmKb9B2yE= Received: by 10.181.148.2 with SMTP id a2mr2207713bko.117.1226347030921; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.55.1 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70e8236f0811101157v1d19d6d8l43a2635b45c11106@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:57:10 +0000 From: "Joao Barros" To: "John Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <200811101343.48958.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081101114717.0ffc2ec8@valhala> <200811011517.37640.lists@jnielsen.net> <70e8236f0811100647o4cd98966o8108a0e7ecc08bb5@mail.gmail.com> <200811101343.48958.lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: Doug Rabson , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS for a desktop computer 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: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:57:13 -0000 On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > On Monday 10 November 2008 09:47:46 am Joao Barros wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, John Nielsen 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. Yes, there is an item in the wiki for zfsboot with a big finger pointing at Doug Rabson (cc'd) but I don't know the status of the task. I was using the /boot on small ufs partition method to boot my raidz but upgraded my machine and added a 1TB disk to the mix. I'll be booting from a usb pen with root on zfs. As soon as zfsboot works I'll ditch the usb pen. Doug, can you provide some status update on zfsboot? Do you need help on something? -- Joao Barros