Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:37:32 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, krad <kraduk@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc. Message-ID: <20100920133732.GA66641@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <4C975AA8.1040106@icyb.net.ua> References: <20100917234542.GE1902@garage.freebsd.pl> <16411667@ipt.ru> <AANLkTi=giSyr6ZAeMrBs9k-o5iZ0CAgS7Ta4z0DXp5hX@mail.gmail.com> <20100920124707.GB2410@garage.freebsd.pl> <4C975AA8.1040106@icyb.net.ua>
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not > > really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple > > disks/partitions. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, so it is > > intuitive, but I also haven't spend much time thinking about it. We > > needed UFS and that is what I implemented. It took me much more time > > than I expected anyway:) > > Maybe reserve some area inside zfs boot2 and put relevant information there. > Similarly to how boot0cfg modifies data within boot0. > The information could include "nextboot-pool" and "nextboot-fs". nextboot-fs sounds nice. I use the bootfs property of zpool and it would be nice if one can override it from the boot2 commandline. John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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