Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:44:24 -0500 From: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Dual-boot with common ZFS Message-ID: <4A40BFDA-ABE9-4AB5-947F-C11343B9630B@metricspace.net>
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It looks like I'm going to have to install Linux on my laptop for a while because of lack of driver support (haswell graphics). However, I thought of an idea and wanted to see if anyone has done something similar. I have a pure-ZFS setup, with a GPT. I was wondering if it might be possible to use the same ZFS volume to hold both a Linux and a FreeBSD installation. At least on the surface, it seems like you ought to be able to create separate file systems for each OS. The real trick, I think, would be in finding the right boot/loader.conf arguments to point the kernels at the correct root, and the the right flags for ZFS mount to mount the other file systems correctly. I can think of several things you could do with this scheme, among them being Linux-to-FreeBSD driver porting. There's probably things you could do with virtualization layers as well. Has anyone attempted such a setup, and if so, what were your experiences?
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