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Subject: Re: ZFS boot pool selection
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> wrote:
> Should vfs.root.mountfrom and bootfs be removed from the latest ZFS howto instructions?

Definitely not either. I use manageBE (another beadm-a-like tool) to
manage my root pool, the bootfs property is what determines which root
is used, and vfs.root.mountfrom is what I would put in the loader to
boot from a different one.

Cheers

Tom