Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:45:33 -0600 From: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs_20070303.patch on current Message-ID: <45F2EEBD.6070007@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307135017.GC2864@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20070120073117.GB60202@x12.dk> <200703061246.09687.antik@bsd.ee> <45ED5850.6050506@nipsi.de> <200703061420.36980.antik@bsd.ee> <20070307135017.GC2864@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:20:36PM +0200, Andrei Kolu wrote: >> Thanks! So I have to enable ZFS from /boot/loader.conf with zfs_load="yes" or >> how? > > Forgot to mention. Do not add 'zfs_load="YES"' to your > /boot/loader.conf, because it tries to read some files before root file > system is mounted, which will panic the system. I'll fix this at some > point, but avoid loading zfs.ko too early for now. Is there any hope for someday optionally using ZFS as a root filesystem? I was sort of imagining a setup where /boot resided in a UFS filesystem so it could hold the kernel/modules/regular booting info and - /boot/loader.conf would specify 'zfs_load="YES"' along with another directive to tell which zfs filesystem to use as root. Barry
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