Has anybody been working on zfsboot for sparc64?

[Craig Butler]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 23:20 +0200, Michael Moll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:41:26AM +0800, Gavin Mu wrote:
> > It seems that booting from ZFS is not supported on sparc64, has
> > anybody been working on this? Thanks.
> 
> There has been a discussion about this topic some months ago, see
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2010-July/007330.html
> and the following mails. It seems nobody stepped up, yet.
> 
> Regards

Does it really need to be implemented ?? zfs root with ufs /boot is
working great.

Personally I push a minimal install onto the ufs partition then
dump-restore onto tank when created...  I keep the data on the ufs
partition and just link in boot directory into the tank;
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot

You can even gmirror the ufs partition between HDD's

If the zfs ever messes up, you still have a workable system available
via the ufs partition.

I don't fully see the advantages of a fully zfs system including
the /boot.

Thanks

Craig B