svn commit: r185096 - in head/sys/boot: i386 i386/gptzfsboot
i386/zfsboot zfs
Doug Rabson
dfr at rabson.org
Thu Nov 20 01:14:34 PST 2008
On 19 Nov 2008, at 19:56, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 11:39:01 am Doug Rabson wrote:
>> Author: dfr
>> Date: Wed Nov 19 16:39:01 2008
>> New Revision: 185096
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185096
>>
>> Log:
>> Add a GPT-aware variant of zfsboot which should be used in a similar
> manner
>> to gptboot, i.e. installed in a freebsd-boot partition using /sbin/
>> gpart
> or
>> /sbin/gpt.
>>
>> Tweak the /boot/loader ZFS support so that it can find ZFS pools
>> that are
>> contained in GPT partitions.
>
> This is very cool! What I would actually like to do if possible is to
> make /boot/gptboot handle both UFS and ZFS (it can key off the
> UUIDs) so we
> only need a single bootstrap for GPT for both filesystems. We have a
> relatively large amount of room for gptboot (we could easily do 128k
> if
> needbe) and I'd like to take advantage of that to make the user
> experience
> simpler.
I was thinking about this possibility too. It wouldn't be hard to add
the UFS reader and use that if there is a freebsd-ufs partition on the
disk.
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