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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:52:38 -0500
From:      Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable after upgrading to r225312
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote:
> In any case, size isn't an issue for any of gptboot, gptzfsboot or
> zfsboot (unlike boot2). =A0For that matter, why do we need both
> gptboot and gptzfsboot? =A0It would be more convenient to have a
> single GPT bootstrap that handled both UFS & ZFS.
>
gptzfsboot contains CDDL licensed code.  This was done to allow users
to build/install FreeBSD without any CDDL licensed boot code.

Scot



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