Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:21:56 +0200 From: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT Message-ID: <DE05158C-A977-4564-B7F5-431F8841F853@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> References: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au>
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On 17 Nov, 2009, at 07:10 , Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > 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 I've also thought about that, but I guess one of the issues is that this way FreeBSD will by default load CDDL-ed code, which may not be desirable. Probably a compromise would be to build two loaders by default, one with zfs support and the standard one. P.S.: It may be late for 8.0-REL but I think this should happen some day. -- Regards, Nikolay Denevhelp
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