I'm trying to help collect information about implementing raidz boot
support. At the same time there is also the possibility that the work
would overlap and take advantage of other grub 2 features allowing
booting from drives larger than 1T.
So if any zfs developers are kind enough to give more technical details..
While not so much detail this does give a nice high level overview..
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z
So the obvious question.. best approach to traversing the filesystem
metadata?
The other question that I am less worried about is would this violate
any patents.. I mean.. Sun added the initial zfs support to grub and
this is essentially extending that, but I'm not aware of any patent
provisions on that code or some royalty free statement about ZFS related
patents from Sun.. (Frankly.. I look at Sun as /similar/ to Cononical in
that I assume they only sue to protect themselves and not go after any
good intention foss project..)
Thanks
./C
ps.. I'm codestr0m in #ospkg on irc.freenode.net if anyone has any
questions/comments/suggestions/wants to help
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