Re: Current best practices: UEFI boot on zfsboot nvme raid?

On 2023-03-23 15:23, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2023, at 4:56 PM, Derek (freebsd lists) <482254ac@razorfever.net> wrote:
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>> My guess is, like swap, it might be possible to gmirror across my RAID this filesystem and remove all of these considerations.  Is this the best practice?
> 
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> I don't know if it's best practices, but that is what I do.  I have a /dev/mirror/efi geom_mirror msdosfs mounted via /etc/fstab on /boot/efi.  That makes it easy to update both copies at once and keep them in sync.
> 
> However, the HUGE downside is that efibootmgr doesn't appear to work with GEOM labels, and so I get "efibootmgr: Cannot translate unix loader path" errors when trying to create new boot entries via "efibootmgr -c". :-(
> 
> I believe this Bugzilla is pertinent, and it still appears to be open: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229191
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> So, I guess best practices for everything working is to stick with the low-level device names like ada0p1 and so on.
> 

This is great information, and good leads to follow.  Thanks for your reply.

For those finding the thread later, I feel like "stick with low-level 
device names" refers to the work around when using efibootmgr referenced 
in the bug.

People do win on freebsd-questions!

Derek