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To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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on 04/07/2013 21:18 Dmitry Morozovsky said the following:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> 
>> Now, looking at zfsboot.c, couldn't we (for finding /boot/zfsloader suitable 
>> for us) loop over, say, top-level datasets in pools we have, in abcense of 
>> special property?  As for me, this should plug the most annoying mistakes...

I don't see any reason to do that.  For example I have multiple root filesystems
and they are second level from top.  And I don't want any code to second-guess me.

> And followup:
> 
> for ufs/fdisk, one could easily drop in the boot process and switch to other 
> disk, slice, partitiona and even loader.  Not that it's (at least easily) 
> achievable with zfsloader...

Really?
http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

> And, not, unfortunately, I have no patches to apply....
> 


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Andriy Gapon