Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:05:49 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: few ideas for zfsloader (boot environments) Message-ID: <4BD9F4AD.4080904@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20100429205653.GA86011@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4B9FD6E0.5000303@icyb.net.ua> <4BD9B406.5070009@icyb.net.ua> <20100429205653.GA86011@hub.freebsd.org>
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on 29/04/2010 23:56 Navdeep Parhar said the following: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:29:58PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> BTW, it's already possible to use FreeBSD+ZFS+GRUB and have this ability (in some >> form). But it would great to have that "natively". >> >> Couple of useful links: >> http://grub.enbug.org/GRUB2FreeBSDZFS >> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15161.html >> Thanks to Navdeep for the GRUB work! >> >> BTW, Navdeep, was there any progress on your grub+zfsloader patch? >> Or GRUB folks plainly refused it? > > It's all in the email thread that you pointed out. I got the impression > from the reply that they don't have chainloading high in their priority > list. But the patch has not been explicitly refused either. Those > interested in this functionality should consider asking the GRUB folks > to include it. I see. Perhaps, we could use your patch in FreeBSD port of GRUB for time being. Oh, hey, we don't have a port for GRUB2 yet? :-) I think we should create it. -- Andriy Gapon
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