From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 18:28:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BEEE16A400 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bp@barryp.org) Received: from eden.barryp.org (host-42-60-230-24.midco.net [24.230.60.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5789713C481 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bp@barryp.org) Received: from [10.66.1.10] (helo=barry-pedersons-computer.local) by eden.barryp.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HQ5db-000I0P-MX; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:45:47 -0600 Message-ID: <45F2EEBD.6070007@barryp.org> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:45:33 -0600 From: Barry Pederson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Macintosh/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <20070120073117.GB60202@x12.dk> <200703061246.09687.antik@bsd.ee> <45ED5850.6050506@nipsi.de> <200703061420.36980.antik@bsd.ee> <20070307135017.GC2864@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20070307135017.GC2864@garage.freebsd.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs_20070303.patch on current X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:28:37 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:20:36PM +0200, Andrei Kolu wrote: >> Thanks! So I have to enable ZFS from /boot/loader.conf with zfs_load="yes" or >> how? > > Forgot to mention. Do not add 'zfs_load="YES"' to your > /boot/loader.conf, because it tries to read some files before root file > system is mounted, which will panic the system. I'll fix this at some > point, but avoid loading zfs.ko too early for now. Is there any hope for someday optionally using ZFS as a root filesystem? I was sort of imagining a setup where /boot resided in a UFS filesystem so it could hold the kernel/modules/regular booting info and - /boot/loader.conf would specify 'zfs_load="YES"' along with another directive to tell which zfs filesystem to use as root. Barry