Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:37:25 +0200 From: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT Message-ID: <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d36406630909171325x2318db24w2ecc5e6e86218d41@mail.gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> <d36406630909171325x2318db24w2ecc5e6e86218d41@mail.gmail.com>
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My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: > 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS > directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. > When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into > the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is > there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an > initial installation? > > Cheers, > Anselm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > > To big a rewrite needed i think. I've heard of plans to potentially > release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the > bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. > > The biggest thing we need for the release is for the loader to be > compiled with zfs support in. It seems to have been in and out over > the past few months so i try to make sure i have my own version > specially compiled with it in.
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