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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: Re: boot from ZFS: which pool types use?
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> >> Really?
> >> http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
> > 
> > Hmm.  I do not see (maybe I'm missing something obvious) how can one select at 
> > gptzfsboot or similar prompt the pool to load loader (not too much 'load's, 
> > heh?) from...
> 
> Page 18.
> 
> FreeBSD/x86 boot
> Default: pool1:ROOT/test1:/boot/zfsloader
> boot: pool2:ROOT/knowngood:/boot/zfsloader.old
> 
> BTW, the syntax now is changed to use more familiar dataset names, e.g.
> "pool2/ROOT/knowngood" instead of "pool2:ROOT/knowngood".

Wow.  This should be documented loud, then. Possibly in the prompt too.

Thank you very much for the insights :)


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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