From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 21:45:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B8716A46C; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0FD13C50A; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8KLjAIq035406; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:45:10 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:45:10 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20070920150840.GG7562@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20070921014243.C33213@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20070920150840.GG7562@dan.emsphone.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:45:10 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Adam Jacob Muller , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Axel Subject: Re: ZFS pool not working on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:28 -0000 On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Dan Nelson wrote: DN> > It's a good idea to keep the actual old UFS / directory around DN> > although only /boot gets used in there if you mount / from zfs. DN> DN> What I do is populate my UFS /.boot filesystem with /etc, /lib, /libexec, DN> /bin, and /sbin from my root filesystem, so if zfs fails to load it's DN> easy to recover. With small patch to rescue (including zpool and zfs together with libraries involved) all that required is copying /rescue and symlinking /bin and /sbin to it. Well, you also have to mkdir dev and possibly have ./etc/{,s}pwd.db to make tar happy... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------