ZFS-on-Root method

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Thanks! BTW your ZFS tutorial on BSDNow is excellent!


On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Allan Jude wrote:

> On 2014-06-12 00:34, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> I think you meant Allan.  He was teaching me ZFS stuff too :)
>>
>> On 11 June 2014 00:05,  <freebsd at fongaboo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe when we chatted, you noted that you wrote the ZFS-on-Root option
>>> in the FreeBSD installer. Can you tell me which of these methods it uses?
>>>
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot
>>>
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
>>>
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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>
> It uses a heavily modified version of this:
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE
>
> The method it uses is not recreated explicitly on the wiki, as it has a
> number of variables, especially the newer version in head that offers
> encrypted and/or mirrored swap as well.
>
> If you are interested in how it works, you can read the source code here:
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot?view=markup
>
> -- 
> Allan Jude
>
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