Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:56:57 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r185096 - in head/sys/boot: i386 i386/gptzfsboot i386/zfsboot zfs Message-ID: <200811191456.57735.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200811191639.mAJGd1A0022327@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200811191639.mAJGd1A0022327@svn.freebsd.org>
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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. -- John Baldwin
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