Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD.

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
To big a rewrite needed i think. Tell me about it. :P I've heard of plans to potentially release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. There's quite a few installer options that are around. bsdinstaller, then

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-26 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:01 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: I hope our developers see fit to make sysinstall zfs aware, but I hope we are not pushed (I know how to kick and my screams are deafening) into using it any time soon: ufs is wonderful for us ordinary computer users.

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-23 Thread krad
2009/9/22 krad kra...@googlemail.com 2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com: My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? zfs works fine as root on opensolaris, though it took them a while to get there.

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-23 Thread krad
2009/9/23 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com 2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com: My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? zfs works fine as root on

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out that

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-22 Thread krad
2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss

Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-17 Thread krad
2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the