ZFS Boot Support from Installer

[Tim Gustafson]

> No one has gone near that stuff in years.  We don't even
> have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use
> sysinst.  The livefs image has all of the tools that you
> need to bootstrap a system.

That's a silly answer.  The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the installation process as easy and complete as possible.  If bootstrapping a system using the livefs file system is possible, then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer.

Yes, a higher-level sysadmin can do it...but the vast majority of people who administer servers for a living are not higher-level sysadmins.

Tim Gustafson
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
tjg at soe.ucsc.edu
831-459-5354