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Date:      Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:42:18 +0200
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Let's back out LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from STABLE
Message-ID:  <3a142e750906131642n4d00469dh779e54da231bf6d3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E2C78331-3407-44BE-BF32-0A24E86B0F09@airwired.net>
References:  <E2C78331-3407-44BE-BF32-0A24E86B0F09@airwired.net>

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On 6/13/09, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote:
> I have now proven that the recent post June 8th version of
>
> 	/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile
>
> causes catastrophic data loss.
>
> Why on earth would this change not be immediately rolled back out of
> the STABLE branch?  For those on the bleeding edge with CURRENT they
> expect to lose their entire drives, but not STABLE users.

I hardly doubt that such change cause loss of data on entire drive.
There is always old loader to pick up.

> We need to remove -DLOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/
> loader/Makefile immediately.

I don't understand why LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT is not defined by default
on CURRENT.


-- 
Paul



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