Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2012-01-31 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 31.01.2012 19:49, Andrey Fesenko wrote: > This work if use ZFS? > My issues "Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition" > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/013514.html > > I test > # gpart show > => 34 625142381 ada0 GPT (298G) > 34128 1

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2012-01-31 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:49:51PM +0300, Andrey Fesenko wrote: > This work if use ZFS? > My issues "Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition" > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/013514.html > > I test > # gpart show > => 34 625142381 ada0 GPT (298G) >

gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2012-01-31 Thread Andrey Fesenko
This work if use ZFS? My issues "Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition" http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-January/013514.html I test # gpart show => 34 625142381 ada0 GPT (298G) 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 26621952 2 freebsd

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread krad
On 20 September 2010 14:37, John Hay wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > > > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not > > > really on partitions. One ZFS file system

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, September 17, 2010 7:45:42 pm Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > - Split code shared by almost any boot loader into separate files and > clean up most layering violations: I like this in general. I worry that the space constraints for boot2 will prevent it from using this though as it dep

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/09/2010 16:37 John Hay said the following: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: >>> No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not >>> really on partitions. One ZFS file system ca

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread John Hay
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:59:20PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not > > really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple > > disks/partitions. I'm not yet su

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/09/2010 15:47 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not > really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple > disks/partitions. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, so it is > intuitive, but I also haven't spend

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:10:52PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:42 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on > > boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one > > is

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:17:38AM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote: > Hi PJD! > > Can you this patcheset release for 7-STABLE? I've no plans atm to port this work to 7-STABLE. I don't even have 7.x systems anymore. Not sure how boot code differs, maybe the patch will apply without modifications? No id

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:46:56AM +0100, krad wrote: > does it work for zfs boot as that would be really nice if it did? No, it doesn't. ZFS works a bit differently. ZFS operate on pools, not really on partitions. One ZFS file system can span multiple disks/partitions. I'm not yet sure how to imp

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-20 Thread krad
On 19 September 2010 18:10, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:42 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on > > boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one > > is known to be g

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-19 Thread Oliver Pinter
Hi PJD! Can you this patcheset release for 7-STABLE? On 9/19/10, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:42 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >> My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on >> boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-19 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi! On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:42 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on > boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one > is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by > dd(1)ing

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/17/10 4:45 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Hi. My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by dd(1)ing entire partition imag

gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-17 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hi. My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by dd(1)ing entire partition image onto unused partition, we mark it as try-to-boot