From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 27 05:24:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324A81065670 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:24:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com (mail-px0-f192.google.com [209.85.216.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062658FC12 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi30 with SMTP id 30so4908011pxi.7 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:24:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=cLoI6J1szsyS6E0CyAho3ugCrHTOPjQlafn3s7atm3o=; b=unDgocCqaU5D73g+FFs7I/wua79F2lRWjKdxFg9wPbc6ck9TSn5w0Xvbb4zHDImNpM JI1/nQsP7zn1GZ63GeuTKvnyVgPcFrBFufBN+ItqzKe5tdFrLGoUSU0um4SVtcOhVLDg UIvehe0KkrURdobcoYX0WjVH3XsZy4oUw5orI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=XkGJH95X9/dh1PGjmZ72LUVY1OyxEpX8GS8OgA9ADyMFK9G98a3X//iQuxRl8LZ9IJ XlhzKM2pGVNVwAadi74DnBTQcrBtM0hJyUTZq7v8mufMMkQGILB9vmffwMbnC82GaQsL 5dwR4D6oyoM0tTOVV7f5GvQuFd1pyHj4evuP4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.152.40 with SMTP id z40mr138691wfd.40.1254029071577; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:24:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:24:31 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e37eeb7b005c2cba Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Anselm Strauss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:24:32 -0000 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Anselm Strauss 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