From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 07:43:08 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 C6C191065693 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ndenev@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572A38FC18 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-fx0-f218.google.com with SMTP id 10so2506006fxm.14 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:43:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=Cb6gLZ25lNJ6zpsduae415LEzCtGAuxRbm5Cn9gOuMI=; b=YpOC20A7Mo6lFnP4WokpuaveOiY6uwH1MV5izehyTGY39vZDVCdxVaiSp5wCvlNQTn Ok04M9nCNGNROCd6IiH24ghk702KUeKrZiZDzFnBOL/Pl0AIXgHIrvBbZtqH3ZxSKkL7 K7oj4RoNGZbL8kkdaidzTrlmduwj59czN01X4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=I2nuNaWMmtgKJgCxf5Ini60ra1b4e/vFYhsKyxwC8nASggMoHiE6rhBMT1G77rx8VU 9QJXqECUppkF+QAmkuuRndr0Lfrmatal52OG9Wit8zpPT9mQg80sjfNbseMNJJojyNnu K/lSl0gsqSSN2WgxY0K8Asnat7NwM7hGoYEOA= Received: by 10.102.236.11 with SMTP id j11mr4225389muh.3.1258442518984; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.10? (93-152-151-19.ddns.onlinedirect.bg [93.152.151.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w5sm14526344mue.7.2009.11.16.23.21.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:58 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Nikolay Denev In-Reply-To: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:21:56 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> To: Aristedes Maniatis X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:43:08 -0000 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > Thanks >=20 > Ari >=20 >=20 > --=20 > --------------------------> > 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 Denev