From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 17 11:57:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27D4106568B for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amsibamsi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com (mail-ew0-f208.google.com [209.85.219.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFEA8FC20 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so327553ewy.36 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:57:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:mime-version :subject:date; bh=qyVCnOA4THHAeAjMhYFp78UDCJlWc/c164wHofws/0A=; b=uzeIzlBZ2xbFD4CznQZCeBgW8+8YPwoOSmsH9bIA3nw62ZL2CrR1vJUpGvvvJuInE6 KoaIh3hwZwmku/r0CyZg0DJr4s0SwwYFEJLmFIDc+6d19CPvfWfAIQc7iOcN8fNXVRZU ZaXsKnkX2fchobB6n9TvQB7ZnUDcgtM+Tus0U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer :mime-version:subject:date; b=Awj3y8RnjgN5QwQnrH/ZaAhuV1q/C4rBl1ddLfp2IWU2J5/K98QH859kdaMx2G0ohF P9HHkUvpzCe85IUdvaKuqJbpqg+qaDt2FV7qokeTzAiApqUmy10PivbEVu59EXrT6ZcJ wz1g3VUumTcD3cldkzAVrV65xz0pLqqKoTfn8= Received: by 10.210.9.12 with SMTP id 12mr536969ebi.3.1253188300104; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.122.78.149? (gprs13.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm1608173eyg.37.2009.09.17.04.51.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> From: Anselm Strauss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (7C144) Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7C144) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:51:15 +0200 Subject: Booting ZFS and GPT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:57:51 -0000 Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? Cheers, Anselm