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From: Aldis Berjoza <graudeejs@yandex.ru>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Why do we need vfs.root.mountfrom for zfs
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18.11.2012, 21:19, "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>:
> on 18/11/2012 16:03 Aldis Berjoza said the following:
>
>> šI was wondering why oh, why do we need to set
>> švfs.root.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf in order to boot from zfs.
>
> Who is 'we'? šAnd why do you think 'we' have to do that? :-)
>
>> šzpools have bootfs option.
>>
>> šThis info is redundant.
>> šI think one of two could be totally avoided at least in case when we boot form gptzfsboot.
>>
>> šWhat I'm missing?
>
> You don't miss anything. šThe defaults work fine. šYou don't have to set
> vfs.root.mountfrom unless you want it to point to some non-default fs.
>
> More details:
> http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
> Page 17 and one.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon

Thank you, thank you so very much.
I never knew vfs.root.mountfrom was optional. All the turorials I've been reading said to set it.

-- 
Aldis Berjoza
FreeBSD addict