Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:14:28 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r185096 - in head/sys/boot: i386 i386/gptzfsboot i386/zfsboot zfs Message-ID: <3ED1CD56-4F9C-46BD-9EE1-401CB55F378A@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <200811191456.57735.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200811191639.mAJGd1A0022327@svn.freebsd.org> <200811191456.57735.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 19 Nov 2008, at 19:56, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008 11:39:01 am Doug Rabson wrote: >> Author: dfr >> Date: Wed Nov 19 16:39:01 2008 >> New Revision: 185096 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185096 >> >> Log: >> Add a GPT-aware variant of zfsboot which should be used in a similar > manner >> to gptboot, i.e. installed in a freebsd-boot partition using /sbin/ >> gpart > or >> /sbin/gpt. >> >> Tweak the /boot/loader ZFS support so that it can find ZFS pools >> that are >> contained in GPT partitions. > > This is very cool! What I would actually like to do if possible is to > make /boot/gptboot handle both UFS and ZFS (it can key off the > UUIDs) so we > only need a single bootstrap for GPT for both filesystems. We have a > relatively large amount of room for gptboot (we could easily do 128k > if > needbe) and I'd like to take advantage of that to make the user > experience > simpler. I was thinking about this possibility too. It wouldn't be hard to add the UFS reader and use that if there is a freebsd-ufs partition on the disk.
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