[PATCH] Build a separate ZFS-enabled loader.zfs

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 29/11/09 5:05 AM, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:29 +0700, Edho P Arief wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:42 PM, John Baldwin<jhb at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 1:27:32 pm Robert Noland wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:17 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I made a few changes, but this is tested and working for zfs.  I
>>>> opted to change the loader name to zfsloader, since we tend to prefix
>>>> rather than suffix boot/loader bits and I thought that loader.zfs.old
>>>> looked ugly.  The following should be a complete patch against -CURRENT.
>>>> Note that you do need to reinstall bootcode (zfsboot/gptzfsboot) for
>>>> this to boot the correct loader.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/0001-Create-a-seperate-zfs-enabled-loader.patch
>>>>
>>>> robert.
>>>
>>> Looks ok to me, commit!
>>>
>>
>> will this merged back to 8.0-stable?
>
> I plan on it, but the big win won't come until it makes it into a
> release or at least a snapshot where you can just install everything
> from CD/DVD.
>
> robert.


The big win for us (and many others) will come when freebsd-update picks it up. I assume that means it would have to make it into the errata or security patches for 8.0? Otherwise we'll only see it in 8.1.

Ari




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