Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:33:38 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. Message-ID: <20070409153338.GH76673@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409094319.GB76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com>
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--gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:26PM +0100, Joao Barros wrote: > I was looking at how Solaris got support for booting off ZFS and the > patch to GRUB to support it. > Is it feasible for FreeBSD's boot loader? What would be the main > issue: technical or licensing? I don't know if there are licensing issues, probably yes if we would like to add ZFS support to our standard loader. The biggest problem I see is lack of motivation on my side. Really. Why someone would like to keep kernel on ZFS so much? This would be a huge amount of work, I expect, and what we get in turn? On Solaris you can only boot from a single-disk pool or from a mirrored pool. Is it really worth the effort for us? I much more prefer to spend the time working on something more useful than that and keep my small /boot/ file system protected by gmirror on UFS - with this approach there are no limitations - we can keep our root file system on compressed RAID-Z pool. Of course if someone is willing to try working on this, I'm happy to help. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGlzSForvXbEpPzQRAkamAKDmaWgfF/ojSw1M5XNdZgA2GoGSVACg6zXx NuhM7BoNUiuqouW23pR84mQ= =hWRY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gTtJ75FAzB1T2CN6--
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