Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:50:23 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc. Message-ID: <AANLkTikWFRTeKnHQFUpWx0poBz2X4SsJ7Kj28yYvyn2o@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100920133732.GA66641@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20100917234542.GE1902@garage.freebsd.pl> <16411667@ipt.ru> <AANLkTi=giSyr6ZAeMrBs9k-o5iZ0CAgS7Ta4z0DXp5hX@mail.gmail.com> <20100920124707.GB2410@garage.freebsd.pl> <4C975AA8.1040106@icyb.net.ua> <20100920133732.GA66641@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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On 20 September 2010 14:37, John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > > > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not > > > really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple > > > disks/partitions. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, so it is > > > intuitive, but I also haven't spend much time thinking about it. We > > > needed UFS and that is what I implemented. It took me much more time > > > than I expected anyway:) > > > > Maybe reserve some area inside zfs boot2 and put relevant information > there. > > Similarly to how boot0cfg modifies data within boot0. > > The information could include "nextboot-pool" and "nextboot-fs". > > nextboot-fs sounds nice. I use the bootfs property of zpool and it would > be nice if one can override it from the boot2 commandline. > > John > -- > John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org > exactly what i was thinking. Its real nice how opensolaris odes its boot environments. I have a few custom scripts to replicate that with the install world, but at yet have no easy way to flip flop the bootfs varible, other than booting in on live(cd|usb)
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