From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 21:47:01 2011 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 0FBBB1065674 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carl@chave.us) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A338C8FC3D for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so19342273fxm.13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:46:59 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.103.3 with SMTP id i3mr4665884fao.137.1294696015592; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.79.77 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:46:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:46:55 -0500 Message-ID: From: Carl Chave To: krad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives 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: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:47:01 -0000 > echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and > reboot > =A0zfs set mountpoint=3Dlegacy $zpool/be/$nroot > =A0zpool set bootfs=3D$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n" Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and forth but aren't you still stuck if everything blows up on that first reboot? In order to switch back to the known working dataset you've got to get to a fixit prompt to set the correct bootfs property right?