From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 19:37:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6031065672 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amsibamsi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com (mail-ew0-f209.google.com [209.85.219.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4FA8FC1B for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so56615ewy.36 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=xFq6Ilebd7lK6d8V2H+phKBx1MrYyuhvJQNxgHSObBQ=; b=vV7lsvbDVa+ma2E9YaRhtLs1tpSUVvbpNjo3QFe50CxrtP51qliy0PTYDK//NzVoNn GXi3dyG6DfPPHf9VyrC1Wqzccg23tNSGmcTRMfNWbxPqpgMLX/HiY6cUKRIkJrttsfUV R8rk5bCpL3oM6NOwu+HvHvCAgWyv2VJtdw208= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=WNWb9BrlFc8bAQ7H5pTjKUyOEJc0BdsLL+nJ00IKNBudlhJfGw6LPLc8PmjnUpeEyK Kwxkr4bIzCaFLP9i8hWcbTvFh5wwveduqRZh3l1tZZqjLN+AnRt3LVQs8GykTy0KpTRk J+ytaB7cqLzatTZKmiZGbP9seDoGJDD5MKADg= Received: by 10.211.159.13 with SMTP id l13mr1542171ebo.82.1253648248124; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.10.2.2? (80-219-26-31.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.219.26.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm599499eyz.34.2009.09.22.12.37.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes From: Anselm Strauss In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:37:25 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> To: krad X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:37:29 -0000 My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: > 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss > Hi, > > I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS > directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. > When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into > the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is > there any plan to include GPT and ZFS setup in sysinstall during an > initial installation? > > Cheers, > Anselm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > > To big a rewrite needed i think. I've heard of plans to potentially > release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the > bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. > > The biggest thing we need for the release is for the loader to be > compiled with zfs support in. It seems to have been in and out over > the past few months so i try to make sure i have my own version > specially compiled with it in.