Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:53:21 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Subject: Re: ZFS for a desktop computer Message-ID: <0ABB4FA4-C476-4C89-8DE0-4B4679E2BD6B@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0811101157v1d19d6d8l43a2635b45c11106@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081101114717.0ffc2ec8@valhala> <200811011517.37640.lists@jnielsen.net> <70e8236f0811100647o4cd98966o8108a0e7ecc08bb5@mail.gmail.com> <200811101343.48958.lists@jnielsen.net> <70e8236f0811101157v1d19d6d8l43a2635b45c11106@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10 Nov 2008, at 19:57, Joao Barros wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> > wrote: >> On Monday 10 November 2008 09:47:46 am Joao Barros wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> >>> 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? I implemented zfsboot for simple disks and mirrors and also collections of simple disks and/or mirrors. This work is in pjd's perforce tree and will end up in current when that tree is ready to commit. If I manage to find some spare time before then, I hope to add raidz and raidz2 support to it. The key problem here as in so many other things is lack of time :(
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