Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:31:41 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. Message-ID: <70e8236f0704090931v3d62d067kfa25993da10fb331@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070409153338.GH76673@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409094319.GB76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com> <20070409153338.GH76673@garage.freebsd.pl>
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I was unaware there was no support for booting off a RAID-Z in Solaris, that was my intended setup so no fun. Btw, I hold you personally responsible for my acquisition of two extra 320GB drives ;) On 4/9/07, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl > pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! > > -- Joao Barros
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