From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 20:56:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1205) id 6318D1065676; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:56:53 +0000 From: Navdeep Parhar To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20100429205653.GA86011@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4B9FD6E0.5000303@icyb.net.ua> <4BD9B406.5070009@icyb.net.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BD9B406.5070009@icyb.net.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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, 29 Apr 2010 20:56:53 -0000 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 > http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15161.html > Thanks to Navdeep for the GRUB work! > > BTW, Navdeep, was there any progress on your grub+zfsloader patch? > Or GRUB folks plainly refused it? It's all in the email thread that you pointed out. I got the impression from the reply that they don't have chainloading high in their priority list. But the patch has not been explicitly refused either. Those interested in this functionality should consider asking the GRUB folks to include it. Regards, Navdeep