Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:10:26 -0600 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> Subject: Re: Why do we need vfs.root.mountfrom for zfs Message-ID: <50A96AE2.60803@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <50A93A6E.1090907@FreeBSD.org> References: <848051353247434@web29h.yandex.ru> <50A934D2.9010205@FreeBSD.org> <1026501353267511@web27h.yandex.ru> <50A93A6E.1090907@FreeBSD.org>
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On 11/18/2012 1:43 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 18/11/2012 21:38 Aldis Berjoza said the following: >> >> 18.11.2012, 21:19, "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>: >>> on 18/11/2012 16:03 Aldis Berjoza said the following: >>> >>>> I was wondering why oh, why do we need to set >>>> vfs.root.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf in order to boot from zfs. >>> >>> Who is 'we'? And why do you think 'we' have to do that? :-) >>> >>>> zpools have bootfs option. >>>> >>>> This info is redundant. >>>> I think one of two could be totally avoided at least in case when we boot form gptzfsboot. >>>> >>>> What I'm missing? >>> >>> You don't miss anything. The defaults work fine. You don't have to set >>> vfs.root.mountfrom unless you want it to point to some non-default fs. >>> >>> More details: >>> http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1 >>> Page 17 and one. > > the above should have been "and on". > >> >> Thank you, thank you so very much. >> I never knew vfs.root.mountfrom was optional. All the turorials I've been reading said to set it. > > > Well, it used to be true that either an fstab "/" entry or vfs.root.mountfrom > had to be configured. But now that's optional. > Can you define "now"? 7.4-RELEASE, 8.3-RELEASE, 9.0-RELEASE, or just STABLE/CURRENT? Asking so this may possibly come out of sysutils/beadm Bryan
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