The following occurred to me as I'm in the process of debugging a SCSI
boot problem (immediate reboot after I tell GRUB to "go" on a Tyan
S2865 with a LSI Logic LSI20160B-F; every other possible use of the
LSI board works.):
While for the sake of simplicity and robustness we'd *like* everything
to be under ZFS (insert some version of "This Ring, no other, is made
by the elves...." :-), especially given the current pre-alpha state of
ZFS boot and the various problems we've been hearing about, we don't
*require* booting off of a ZFS filesystem.
Those of us who don't want to be part of the "debug ZFS boot" effort
could very possibly get along for now by having a minimal toe hold in,
say, a SVM RAID-1 UFS / filesystem, and after that gets started, mount
as ZFS filesystems the more dynamic parts of what are usually in a
root partition, like /var.
What do those of you who are familiar with the boot process, upgrading,
etc. think?
- Harold
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