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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:39:53 -0800
From:      Cody Ritts <cr@caltel.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Wiki / ZFS Booting
Message-ID:  <51393359.4090304@caltel.com>
In-Reply-To: <513917AC.40401@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <51390F88.3070101@caltel.com> <20130307221937.GG1551@glenbarber.us> <513917AC.40401@FreeBSD.org>

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> I agree. We should try to reduce the number of ZFS install howtos and
> instead put our efforts into bringing it into the handbook. Maybe some
> of these howtos are better serves as articles showing alternative ways
> of doing these. I know that filesystem layout can be a very personal
> thing for many users who want to lay out things their way and none
> other. But we could give new users guiding principles on how to do the
> basic setup and then help them make the right decisions for their
> environment based on the experience gathered from these wiki pages.

I don't think you could have summed up what I hoped could happen any better!

I do hope that you will also consider keeping the MBR boot code in 
there.  That was I think the most difficult piece of the puzzle. 
Everything is GPT centric, but I just got a brand new little intel atom 
device that will not boot off of the default GPT install.

> Yes, I had a quick glance at it and I especially liked the first part
> using SSH from the beginning.

Thank you.  If it was not for ssh and virtual machine snapshots, I think 
I would have abandoned ZFS until it made it into the handbook or installer.

Thanks,

Cody



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