Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:10:49 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Overriding the zpool bootfs property from the loader? Message-ID: <CALfReydfrs%2B3vz3_5Mv7RCTVLgTnJprmpBiobSgSGiNAMsVUGg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120323150136.470773a9@naclador.mos32.de> References: <4F6C6352.9090906@FreeBSD.org> <20120323131508.0272be25@auedv3.syscomp.de> <4F6C76CD.7050006@FreeBSD.org> <20120323150136.470773a9@naclador.mos32.de>
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On 23 March 2012 14:01, Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:12:45 +0000 > Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> On 23/03/2012 12:15, Florian Wagner wrote: >> > I've recently discussed more or less the same on this list. The >> > thread is called "Extending zfsboot.c to allow selecting filesystem >> > from boot.config" and available in the mailing list archives of >> > October, November 2011 and Januar 2012. >> > >> > Summary: Andriy Gapon has a bunch of changes against head in his >> > avgbsd repository [1] which implement something like this. With his >> > help I've backported these to stable 8. >> > >> > I've just recently gone over the work and put together a culminating >> > patch, which I've tested as extensively as possible in my at-home >> > environment. This is available as a Mercurial patch queue at [2] or >> > directly at [3]. >> >> Yes, this looks like pretty much what I was asking for. =A0So, if I >> understand this correctly, given a root zpool named 'zroot' and a >> number of ZFSes with different boot environments ( zroot/ROOT/FOO, >> zroot/ROOT/BAR, etc.) I could interrupt the boot before the menu >> screen and just type at the boot: prompt -- >> >> =A0 =A0zfs:zroot/ROOT/FOO:boot/zfsloader >> >> or >> >> =A0 =A0zfs:zroot/ROOT/BAR:boot/zfsloader >> >> to select different environments. =A0Is that right? =A0I'll give your >> patches a go over the weekend -- I'm on stable/9 though. > > Actually the format is <POOL>:<DATASET>:<FILE> and <FILE> is optional > and defaults to /boot/zfsloader. So examples would zroot:ROOT/FOO: or > zroot:ROOT/BAR:/boot/zfsloader. > > I think this is documented incorrectly in one of the commits in the > avgbsd repository. Obviously boot(8) should be updated correctly... > > For reference, setup on my fileserver looks link this: > > =A0$ zpool get bootfs root > =A0NAME =A0PROPERTY =A0VALUE =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 SOURCE > =A0root =A0bootfs =A0 =A0root/boot-config =A0local > =A0$ mount | grep root/boot-config > =A0root/boot-config on /boot/config (zfs, local, nfsv4acls) > =A0$ cat /boot/config/boot.config > =A0root:stable8-r232838: > > > Regards > Florian This is really good and i have been wanting something like this for ages. Would it be possible to configure baestie to utilize this or is that to late in the boot process? Any idea of time scales to commit to head/9-stable?
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