8.0-RC1 Available
John Hay
jhay at meraka.org.za
Tue Sep 22 03:55:35 UTC 2009
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:10:30PM +1000, Johny Mattsson wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
> >a patch set was committed by the people who handle porting ZFS to FreeBSD
> >that they felt makes ZFS production-ready.
>
> Hi there,
>
> I only loaded up -BETA4 over the weekend, and went through the extra
> hoops to get a ZFS root (and everything else) to give that a spin. Aside
> from the already-reported lock-order-reversals on zfs unmount, I ran
> into a slight issue when using freebsd-update to go to -RC1 --- It nuked
> my ZFS-aware /boot/loader and left me stranded at the loader prompt.
What I do for now, is to call the zfs aware loader loader.zfs and then
put /boot/loader.zfs in /boot.config.
> Now this is quite arguably self-inflicted and now that I'm aware of it I
> can make sure I'm careful around it in the future, but is there any
> chance of having either
>
> a) the loader be ZFS-aware by default (especially if ZFS is now
> considered production-ready)?
That would be nice. :-)
John
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