on 14/04/2012 18:37 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > I would like to ask for a review and/or testing of the following three > patches: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.diff > > These patches add support for booting from an arbitrary filesystem of any > detected ZFS pool. A filesystem could be selected in zfsboot and thus will > affectfrom where zfsloader would be loaded. zfsboot passes information about > the boot pool and filesystem to zfsloader, which uses those for loaddev and > default value of currdev. A different pool+filesystem could be selected in > zfsloader for booting kernel. Also if vfs.root.mountfrom is not explicitly > set > and is not derived from fstab, then it gets set to the selected boot > filesystem.
A note for prospective testers: the patched loader expect to be started by the patched zfs boot as it passes an additional parameter for a filesystem guid. I should probably add some way to distinguish between the older and newer zfs boot blocks. Maybe an extra bit in bootflags? What do you think? > This should could be used as a foundation for the support of Solaris-like boot > environment selection. I believe that other people have already developed > scripts utilizing ZFS capabilities to provide other aspects of management of > boot environments. > > I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot support > arch-independent. The arches, of course, would have to add some code to make > use of that support. Currently I only enabled it for x86. > > Thank you very much! -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
