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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 2021 07:53:48 -0500
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Building ZFS disk images
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I don't know of any way to do it using the official release scripts either.
One problem is that every ZFS pool and file system is supposed to have a
unique GUID.  So any kind of ZFS release builder would need to re-guid the
pool on first boot.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021, 6:41 AM David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to build ZFS disk images from any existing tooling?
>
> I haven't used UFS for over a decade now and the official cloud images
> are all UFS, so I end up doing an install from the CD ISO into Hyper-V
> locally and then exporting the VHD, but that can't be the most efficient
> way of getting a FreeBSD VHD with ZFS.
>
> I haven't been able to find any documentation and reading the release
> scripts they seem to hard-code UFS.
>
> David
>
>

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