From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 21:41:00 2008 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 2FE8D1065670 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.young@pobox.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35498FC0C for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:40:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.young@pobox.com) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D68F14EE3F for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:59 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: /ArMYLHJh5AZlG7cABufG8EUmnpeV5u9YQmQG+srTtJe 1217367658 Received: from triple0.internal (c122-108-168-198.rochd4.qld.optusnet.com.au [122.108.168.198]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4F97223B5 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triple0.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB317EC5B for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:55 +1000 (EST) From: Duncan Young To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:53 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080727125413.GG1345@garage.freebsd.pl> <1217338852.10413.1.camel@dingo-laptop> <488F2078.708@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <488F2078.708@psg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807300740.54428.duncan.young@pobox.com> Subject: Re: ZFS patches. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: duncan.young@pobox.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:41:00 -0000 On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:51:52 pm Randy Bush wrote: > OutBackdingo wrote: > > As in the whole including boot from ZFs, not sure that code is in here > > yet?? had the boot code been migrated to allow for booting from a ZFS > > partition?? or are we still in the recommended / or /boot being on UFS > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/FreeBSD_7.x_on_a_ZFS_pool > > i guess you did not follow the url. > > boot from zfs is not supported (yet). > > imiho, jeremy's instrs should be combined with those on creating sliced > boot gmirror. I'm not so sure about mirroring /boot. Personally I don't. It only changes occasionally (then rsync will do), and if one changes it and the machine won't boot, one already has an immediate bootable backup. The only file which tends to be changed in normal use is zfs/zpool.cache. regards Duncan