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Subject: Re: arch-independent disks in sys/boot, libstand
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There is an example of this in sys/boot/zfs. The approach taken is to scan
physical drives as they appear and piece them together into ZFS pools based
on the drive metadata. The pools appear as devices in the device table and
the actual ZFS filesystem reader is built on top of that.

On 10 May 2011 10:47, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> I would like to ask for an advice about where/how to implement architecture
> independent disk type(s) for sys/boot.  The types would be logical disks
> built on
> top of physical architecture-specific disks/partitions.  Possible examples
> are:
> ZFS pools, LVM volumes, etc.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon
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