Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:24:31 -0700 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT Message-ID: <e277d6c80909262224v2a73838fm96c0af5dd27e1d5e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, > also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the > last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this > be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and > ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? > I am working on this, but it is a lot of work. Don't expect it anytime soon, as it involves ripping out libdisk and replacing it with libgeom. -- randi
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