Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:14:23 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. Message-ID: <20070409021423.GA90766@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <b34be8420704081909va385968t8b2cf0ddc47ed276@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <b34be8420704081909va385968t8b2cf0ddc47ed276@mail.gmail.com>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:09:43PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > >3. It is now possible to have root file system on ZFS. You would still > > need UFS for your /boot/ file system. >=20 > Stupid question perhaps, but I couldn't find the answer through > searching... why is it not possible to boot directly from ZFS, only > from UFS? The boot blocks need to read the loader from the filesystem, which in turns needs to load the kernel from the filesystem. This involves parsing the filesystem. Kris --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGaF/Wry0BWjoQKURApGsAKDyJDBHFWudhYwfud01p23Do/HTNgCgs0z+ xX7Fcq7C5GuDoKghPzCR6Ck= =1Z0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--
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