From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 07:01:29 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 A8D86106568B for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:01:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f189.google.com (mail-vw0-f189.google.com [209.85.212.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1168FC1F for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws27 with SMTP id 27so3148120vws.3 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=iplcZ4JvrFAyailuZOsRhzvVcOGB7hV1U4NnibrNFYQ=; b=jpcb0g9n2SHI7MN6AFlZW69q1W3DMvmGyPZYAFOpQijv1JDNqDVuYdXxzJXCVNWP6z lL4nXaHPUEHOmMfkHJFIhydJo0fFv6ogmIQ5h3rlYJbGtfRpMsllV6QSpd/CbjAVoM1X n3kGE/LortJNP8l/MiEaOi22gP8jcsdCNo238= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f8KgxQ5xeSiq58r3Foczn/P/1PAxr9l2lPknAbXWqW0oFg2VoH2c5Uk5iyErZg+6pZ sq9BO5kbwZW/UakBK1aXss3KPnFawlfSqhdxQI3ZxzuUQivaCDFliBYWamwqQJbD3iOf ak/+gdgRBOSC0Dc5BvfyibGMe8Cj27zakzBFU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.122.90 with SMTP id k26mr938700vcr.9.1256194888491; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:28 -0700 (PDT) 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> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:01:28 -0500 Message-ID: <790a9fff0910220001m3d7df03j127b51d7d0696271@mail.gmail.com> From: Scot Hetzel To: Aristedes Maniatis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 07:01:29 -0000 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote= : > On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote: >> >> Make sure that your loader has zfs support. =A0Setting >> LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=3D"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? > > 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. > You may also want to check out these pages I created on how to setup a Root on ZFS configuration with ZFS using MBR, and GPT (Single, Mirror, RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2) Configurations. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS If anyone notices a problem with them, either let me know or update the wiki page. Scot