Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:23:35 +0100 From: Pierre Massat <depaulou@efrei.fr> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT Message-ID: <4c3c61160911180923h900f44u74a040726f2b42d4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2e027be00911180833t6a5dbae7kc796db49c7d3b476@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee00911180344s6d69b362ie6dae681d74d5de2@mail.gmail.com> <20091118135340.522fa36a@ernst.jennejohn.org> <cf9b1ee00911180503t3880ff0u599dc3bafea230fa@mail.gmail.com> <2e027be00911180833t6a5dbae7kc796db49c7d3b476@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > Of the hoops that I had to jump through to install FreeBSD 8 on a ZFS raidz, > the least inconsequential was rebuilding loader with ZFS support. Truly, > truly simple. There is also no need to build a different installation image, > everything can be done from the fixit console on the installation media. You > also don't rebuild the system, you rebuild one tiny part of it, just the > loader. This is truly simple, I agree with you. But I have a ZFS-boot mirror and I upgraded to 8.0-RC3 recently and my server didn't reboot because I forgot the loader stuff. Of course, this wasn't a production server and I took some precautions, but it would be more convienient not to worry about such pointless detail. That's why changing the bootloader to be able to have ZFS built-in is, to my mind, a good thing. We can simplify the way ZFS is managed in Freebsd by such simple things. -- Pierre Massat
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