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From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <seklecki@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer
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On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support
> ZFS boot partitions in the installer.


No one has gone near that stuff in years.  We don't even have gmirror(8)
creation support in there.

Best not to use sysinst.  The livefs image has all of the tools that you
need to bootstrap a system.

 ~BAS