Let's back out LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from STABLE

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 23:42:20 UTC 2009


On 6/13/09, Dan Allen <danallen46 at airwired.net> wrote:
> I have now proven that the recent post June 8th version of
>
> 	/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile
>
> causes catastrophic data loss.
>
> Why on earth would this change not be immediately rolled back out of
> the STABLE branch?  For those on the bleeding edge with CURRENT they
> expect to lose their entire drives, but not STABLE users.

I hardly doubt that such change cause loss of data on entire drive.
There is always old loader to pick up.

> We need to remove -DLOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT from /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/
> loader/Makefile immediately.

I don't understand why LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT is not defined by default
on CURRENT.


-- 
Paul


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