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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:41:45 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>,  src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336532 - in head/stand: . common i386 i386/loader i386/zfsboot i386/zfsloader sparc64 sparc64/loader sparc64/zfsloader
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 3:39 AM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:

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> On 20 Jul 2018, at 11:00, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> On 20/07/2018 08:17, Warner Losh wrote:
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> Provide a symbolic link from zfsloader
>  to loader so people who have not upgraded their boot blocks are not
>  affected
>
>
> I am not sure that ZFS boot blocks can handle symbolic links...
> I seem to recall that not a long time ago they lacked that ability.
>
>
> I did implement it. Just need to be sure if its backported when needed.
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=r314112
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>
That's too late in the game. I did this for compatibility with older
systems.  I guess I'll make it a hard-link.

Warner



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