From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 03:55:35 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 AF856106568F for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0678FC21 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix, from userid 3973) id D254B39825; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:55:31 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:55:31 +0200 From: John Hay To: Johny Mattsson Message-ID: <20090922035531.GA37789@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <1253540159.15847.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <4AB84026.7010908@earthmagic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB84026.7010908@earthmagic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: 8.0-RC1 Available 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, 22 Sep 2009 03:55:35 -0000 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:10:30PM +1000, Johny Mattsson wrote: > Ken Smith wrote: > >a patch set was committed by the people who handle porting ZFS to FreeBSD > >that they felt makes ZFS production-ready. > > Hi there, > > I only loaded up -BETA4 over the weekend, and went through the extra > hoops to get a ZFS root (and everything else) to give that a spin. Aside > from the already-reported lock-order-reversals on zfs unmount, I ran > into a slight issue when using freebsd-update to go to -RC1 --- It nuked > my ZFS-aware /boot/loader and left me stranded at the loader prompt. What I do for now, is to call the zfs aware loader loader.zfs and then put /boot/loader.zfs in /boot.config. > Now this is quite arguably self-inflicted and now that I'm aware of it I > can make sure I'm careful around it in the future, but is there any > chance of having either > > a) the loader be ZFS-aware by default (especially if ZFS is now > considered production-ready)? That would be nice. :-) John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org