boot from ZFS: which pool types use?

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 5 09:04:38 UTC 2013


on 04/07/2013 23:09 Dmitry Morozovsky said the following:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>>>> Really?
>>>> http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2012/kyivbsd12-gapon-zfs.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
>>>
>>> Hmm.  I do not see (maybe I'm missing something obvious) how can one select at 
>>> gptzfsboot or similar prompt the pool to load loader (not too much 'load's, 
>>> heh?) from...
>>
>> Page 18.
>>
>> FreeBSD/x86 boot
>> Default: pool1:ROOT/test1:/boot/zfsloader
>> boot: pool2:ROOT/knowngood:/boot/zfsloader.old
>>
>> BTW, the syntax now is changed to use more familiar dataset names, e.g.
>> "pool2/ROOT/knowngood" instead of "pool2:ROOT/knowngood".
> 
> Wow.  This should be documented loud, then. Possibly in the prompt too.

This should be documented in the manual page(s), yes.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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