Root on ZFS, LiveCD and BE

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Mon Aug 15 14:54:26 UTC 2016


Colleagues,

Which is the appropriate maillist to ask questions about Root-on-ZFS
systems? Like the ones below:

1. Boot environment selection from the loader menu does not work on
10.3-RELEASE, or it seems like it. I have submitted a PR
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211835
but maybe it's me doing something wrong? Could someone reproduce
please?

2. Sometimes it's necessary to mount a system's root from another
system (LiveCD, mfsBSD or similar). To do that, you have to import a
system's zroot pool on another system. Is it safe? Is it not going to
render the original system unbootable?

There is not much on https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS, it mostly
concentrates on installing FreeBSD on ZFS, not on using it
afterwards.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru


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