EFI GELI support ready for testers

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 1 15:24:51 UTC 2016


On 2016-06-01 11:19, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> This sounds more like a religious dogma than anything else.
>>
>> If "ZFS volume" means "ZFS pool" here, it is also blatant bullshit.
>> There are a lot of reasons for having more than one ZFS pool, the
>> easiest being separating SSDs and HDDs for fast vs cheap storage.
> assuming one would like to use ZFS - it is of course right. As with any
> other filesystem.
>
> Even more - no matter what filesystem i would use i would never want to
> put tens of disks as one filesystem. for simple reason of recovery and
> reliability.
>
> And i consider FreeBSD loader already overcomplex. having separate
> partition for boot stuff is just fine. After kernel is loaded it takes
> care of all stuff.
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Well, that is kind of the point of ZFS, to have a filesystem with more 
than just a few disks, but reliably.

We are not taking anything away from you, just allowing you to have the 
option to keep the kernel in a convenient place.

-- 
Allan Jude


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