Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:23:07 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives Message-ID: <AANLkTik5PwdZ%2BobXEUriDiWFRv9wtKEgcwZ5=S-d5N6u@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=t8PEa4wy=GB9HOyss2GX-=ST3U91jVrTz1RsX@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=veX-%2BS5sPXJXAHzcgTOBqsg-m8sf23LO%2B9b3_@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikcMscZHaC7DDR5PsZrUG4JtPtjwmkSd=MySfOi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimd5rSnEn61SgMcBShjnhqGVoGkxfAOqKCtwtiy@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikSjidOwHGSJ1U7P%2Ba7ycJeuDrxfoMBN8V4BJt3@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=t8PEa4wy=GB9HOyss2GX-=ST3U91jVrTz1RsX@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11 January 2011 09:19, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11 January 2011 09:09, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave <carl@chave.us> wrote: >> >>> <snip> >>> > echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and >>> > reboot >>> > zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot >>> > zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$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? >>> >> >> >> unfortunatly at the moment yes, but all you have to do is reset the bootfs >> property. It would be nice id you could do something from within the boot >> loader similar to variables you can pass in grub with opensolaris >> > > > having said that as long as the loader works you should be able to reset > the rootfs variable > some similar stuff here. http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE
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