OpenZFS support merged

[Toomas Soome]

> On 25. Aug 2020, at 22:49, driesm.michiels at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-fs at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-fs at freebsd.org> On
>> Behalf Of Matthew Macy
>> Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2020 04:39
>> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>; freebsd-fs <freebsd-
>> fs at freebsd.org>; freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
>> Subject: OpenZFS support merged
>> 
>> r364746 merged OpenZFS support in to HEAD.
> 
> First of all a big thank you to the whole team that made this possible!
> 
> Secondly, I would like to check in if the following statement is still in
> effect (taken from https://zfsonfreebsd.github.io/ZoF):
> "Beware that the FreeBSD boot loader does not allow booting from root pools
> with encryption active (even if it is not in use), so do not try encryption
> on a pool you boot from"
> 
> When we are talking about encryption active, does that mean the feature flag
> active or from the moment one sets encryption=on on any dataset of the root
> pool?
> As a follow-up, if it is not currently not possible, are there any
> long/short term plans to add the missing bits to our boot loader?µ


Yes. The current boot loader can handle features before switch to OpenZFS. New features will be added, it just will take some time.

rgds,
toomas

> 
>> 
>> The change should be transparent unless you want to use new features.
>> I caution against 'zpool upgrade' for the next few weeks.
>> 
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=364746
>> 
>> If you encounter problems please report them to me, Ryan Moeller, and -
>> current.
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