On 18/08/06, Lori Alt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, zfs boot will be supported on both x86 and sparc. Sparc's OBP, and various x86 BIOS's both have restrictions on the devices that can be accessed at boot time, so we need to limit the devices in a root pool on both architectures.
Gotcha. I wasn't sure if you were proposing requiring a custom BIOS on x86, but I take it (from your next point) you're just chainloading a ZFS-aware grub
> Or is x86 zfs root going to need a grub /boot partition on one > of the disks? On x86, each disk capable of booting the system (which means each disk in a root pool) will have grub installed on it in a disk slice which occupies the first few blocks of the disk. It's not the same as the old /boot partition, because all the slice contains is grub. It doesn't contain a file system.
I think that was really what I was getting at. So long as one of the disks is still alive, and the BIOS can boot of it, then you'd be alright? That sounds perfect - the implementation is really not that important to me, so long as there's no single point of failure. Thanks for your time, and have a good weekend. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
