Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:49:04 +0100 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anybody been working on zfsboot for sparc64? Message-ID: <1287568144.2392.10.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <20101019212043.GA38362@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> References: <AANLkTinY6=m4Lvr-V8KtfeRFpgwZnGoDdTDt__n1-PO2@mail.gmail.com> <20101019212043.GA38362@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
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On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 23:20 +0200, Michael Moll wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:41:26AM +0800, Gavin Mu wrote: > > It seems that booting from ZFS is not supported on sparc64, has > > anybody been working on this? Thanks. > > There has been a discussion about this topic some months ago, see > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2010-July/007330.html > and the following mails. It seems nobody stepped up, yet. > > Regards Does it really need to be implemented ?? zfs root with ufs /boot is working great. Personally I push a minimal install onto the ufs partition then dump-restore onto tank when created... I keep the data on the ufs partition and just link in boot directory into the tank; http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot You can even gmirror the ufs partition between HDD's If the zfs ever messes up, you still have a workable system available via the ufs partition. I don't fully see the advantages of a fully zfs system including the /boot. Thanks Craig B
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