RPI4 boot with ZFS supported? (was: Re: rpi4 no boot 20201112 snapshot (success with 20201105))

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:28:59 +0100, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net>  
wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 03:07:27PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
>
>> I suppose it does support ZFS:
>
> It does. I run poudriere on mine, building ports for itself and other
> rpi3s and rpi2s.
>
> Would it be helpful if I wrote up a config somewhere and posted
> it here?
>
> I'm not booting to ssd/external though. I keep almost all data
> on a zfs-usb3 external hd, in case the sdcard goes bad.


I succeeded in running the rpi4 booted from ZFS on USB.

root at generic:/var/log # gpart show
=>        40  1953458096  da0  GPT  (931G)
           40      102400    1  efi  (50M)
       102440     8388608    2  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
      8491048  1944967088    3  freebsd-zfs  (927G)

root at generic:/var/log # bectl list
BE      Active Mountpoint Space Created
default NR     /          2.54G 2020-11-23 22:10

I like it a lot. Will run some makeworld stuff tomorrow.

Thanks to everybody who makes this stuff possible.

Regards,
Ronald.