Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:13:44 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot from ZFS: which pool types use? Message-ID: <51D5C968.2000803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042216510.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041424030.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D56066.1020902@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041552031.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D577A9.1030304@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307041952030.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D59AAD.3030208@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042000130.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <51D5A20F.4070103@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042208370.2446@woozle.rinet.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307042216510.2446@woozle.rinet.ru>
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on 04/07/2013 21:18 Dmitry Morozovsky said the following: > On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > >> Now, looking at zfsboot.c, couldn't we (for finding /boot/zfsloader suitable >> for us) loop over, say, top-level datasets in pools we have, in abcense of >> special property? As for me, this should plug the most annoying mistakes... I don't see any reason to do that. For example I have multiple root filesystems and they are second level from top. And I don't want any code to second-guess me. > And followup: > > for ufs/fdisk, one could easily drop in the boot process and switch to other > disk, slice, partitiona and even loader. Not that it's (at least easily) > achievable with zfsloader... Really? http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1 > And, not, unfortunately, I have no patches to apply.... > -- Andriy Gapon
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