Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:43:42 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Aldis Berjoza <graudeejs@yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why do we need vfs.root.mountfrom for zfs Message-ID: <50A93A6E.1090907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1026501353267511@web27h.yandex.ru> References: <848051353247434@web29h.yandex.ru> <50A934D2.9010205@FreeBSD.org> <1026501353267511@web27h.yandex.ru>
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on 18/11/2012 21:38 Aldis Berjoza said the following: > > 18.11.2012, 21:19, "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>: >> on 18/11/2012 16:03 Aldis Berjoza said the following: >> >>> I was wondering why oh, why do we need to set >>> vfs.root.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf in order to boot from zfs. >> >> Who is 'we'? And why do you think 'we' have to do that? :-) >> >>> zpools have bootfs option. >>> >>> This info is redundant. >>> I think one of two could be totally avoided at least in case when we boot form gptzfsboot. >>> >>> What I'm missing? >> >> You don't miss anything. The defaults work fine. You 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. the above should have been "and on". > > 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. Well, it used to be true that either an fstab "/" entry or vfs.root.mountfrom had to be configured. But now that's optional. -- Andriy Gapon
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