Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:40:54 +0930 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: J David <j.david.lists@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> Subject: Re: zfs_enable vs zfs_load in loader.conf (but neither works) Message-ID: <522E557E.5050202@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <CABXB=RSv93xGrFXKHvgjjqnuQfgzG12ca2CG5wcp6LLmagzPCQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABXB=RTz6jM=B895Bo6Kp-ZAf2pvTZkm-HfS=PrfX=aMKqjMbw@mail.gmail.com> <522D30C9.8000203@bluerosetech.com> <CABXB=RQoza2YFF81KH_sPksnW5xJuCwd6xaWG4z0TQtS%2BnOs%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <522D3C76.1030705@bluerosetech.com> <CABXB=RSv93xGrFXKHvgjjqnuQfgzG12ca2CG5wcp6LLmagzPCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/09/2013 21:20, J David wrote: > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Darren Pilgrim > <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: >> You can use zfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:data/root" in /boot/loader.conf >> instead of an fstab entry. > > That has been in loader.conf the whole time. > >> Mountpoint=legacy is required either way. > > It isn't. There is another machine right next to it running 9.2-RC1 > and it works fine with the mountpoint=/ setting and an empty fstab. > I installed 9.0 onto my machine booting from zfs about a year and a half ago and remember having issues getting it bootable. As I recall mounpoint=legacy and mountpoint=/ effectively point to two different filesystems. Changing the mounpoint after installing hides the / filesystem. So it isn't so much which mountpoint to use but which mountpoint *was* used when you installed the system.
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