Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:53 +1000 From: Duncan Young <duncan.young@pobox.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS patches. Message-ID: <200807300740.54428.duncan.young@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <488F2078.708@psg.com> References: <20080727125413.GG1345@garage.freebsd.pl> <1217338852.10413.1.camel@dingo-laptop> <488F2078.708@psg.com>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:51:52 pm Randy Bush wrote: > OutBackdingo wrote: > > As in the whole including boot from ZFs, not sure that code is in here > > yet?? had the boot code been migrated to allow for booting from a ZFS > > partition?? or are we still in the recommended / or /boot being on UFS > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/FreeBSD_7.x_on_a_ZFS_pool > > i guess you did not follow the url. > > boot from zfs is not supported (yet). > > imiho, jeremy's instrs should be combined with those on creating sliced > boot gmirror. I'm not so sure about mirroring /boot. Personally I don't. It only changes occasionally (then rsync will do), and if one changes it and the machine won't boot, one already has an immediate bootable backup. The only file which tends to be changed in normal use is zfs/zpool.cache. regards Duncan
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