From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 03:47:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D2C1065676 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:47:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30EF8FC08 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-154-198-93.ard.bellsouth.net [72.154.198.93]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9M3kxv0085645 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:47:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: Aristedes Maniatis In-Reply-To: <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:46:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1256183214.2309.61.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:47:04 -0000 On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:22 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote: > > Make sure that your loader has zfs support. Setting > > LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT="YES" in make.conf will take care of it. > > Does this setting just create /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files in /boot? We use freebsd-update as a binary update mechanism and I can see those files already exist (8.0-RC1), so perhaps it isn't needed except to compile the appropriate boot loader files? gptboot and pmbr should be there always... The LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT has to do with it requiring CDDL code and so isn't / wasn't built by default... I'm not fully aware of the details... I just know that when I setup my first amd64 box w/ zfs root it wasn't part of the normal CDs. So I built up a temporary install to bootstrap it and install the OS. robert. > Also, LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT does not appear in the man page for make.conf. > > Once I have everything figured out, I'll write up a blog post with a set of instructions on what I've learnt. Hopefully that will help others in the future. > > Thanks > > Ari Maniatis > -- Robert Noland FreeBSD