From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 05:11:03 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 2B257106566B for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:11:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5218FC0A for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-149.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.149]:52955) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NAGTo-000679-10; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:19:52 +1100 Message-ID: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:10:57 +1100 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091108 Shredder/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT 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: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:11:03 -0000 Is it possible that this flag be set to YES in the FreeBSD 8.0 branch before final release? I don't understand if there are any downsides to doing this, but it certainly would help enormously all those following freebsd-update binary updates and trying to boot directly from ZFS. Needless to say this request is borne from the frustration of killing a server going from RC2 to RC3 and having freebsd-update overwrite our /boot/loader file with a non-ZFS aware version. I'm rather concerned that we'll kill it again for every release we forget about this issue. We'll look at hacking rc.shutdown to perform a test of some sort to help remind us in the short term, but even nicer is if this change could be made, or at least for the freebsd-update binary builds. Thanks Ari -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A