ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

[krad]

On 11 January 2011 09:19, krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11 January 2011 09:09, krad <kraduk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave <carl at chave.us> wrote:
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>>> <snip>
>>> > echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and
>>> > reboot
>>> >  zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot
>>> >  zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n"
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>>> Thanks for the input krad.  It would be nice to easily switch back and
>>> forth but aren't you still stuck if everything blows up on that first
>>> reboot?  In order to switch back to the known working dataset you've
>>> got to get to a fixit prompt to set the correct bootfs property right?
>>>
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>> unfortunatly at the moment yes, but all you have to do is reset the bootfs
>> property. It would be nice id you could do something from within the boot
>> loader similar to variables you can pass in grub with opensolaris
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> having said that as long as the loader works you should be able to reset
> the rootfs variable
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some similar stuff here.
http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE