Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:15:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911171114020.47035@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <DE05158C-A977-4564-B7F5-431F8841F853@gmail.com> References: <4B023061.7070203@ish.com.au> <DE05158C-A977-4564-B7F5-431F8841F853@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Nikolay Denev wrote: > 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. We already build special ZFS-aware boot blocks, so building a special ZFS-aware loader and teaching the ZFS-aware boot blocks how to find it seems like the right answer to me. That way we can build it by default, but not use CDDL code unless specifically requested. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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