gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk

[Scot Hetzel]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari at ish.com.au> wrote:
> On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote:
>>
>> Make sure that your loader has zfs support.  Setting
>> LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT="YES" in make.conf will take care of it.
>
> Does this setting just create /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files in
> /boot? We use freebsd-update as a binary update mechanism and I can see
> those files already exist (8.0-RC1), so perhaps it isn't needed except to
> compile the appropriate boot loader files?
>
> Also, LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT does not appear in the man page for make.conf.
>
> Once I have everything figured out, I'll write up a blog post with a set of
> instructions on what I've learnt. Hopefully that will help others in the
> future.
>
You may also want to check out these pages I created on how to setup a
Root on ZFS configuration with ZFS using MBR, and GPT (Single, Mirror,
RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2) Configurations.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS

If anyone notices a problem with them, either let me know or update
the wiki page.

Scot