svn commit: r185096 - in head/sys/boot: i386 i386/gptzfsboot i386/zfsboot zfs

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008 11:39:01 am Doug Rabson wrote:
> Author: dfr
> Date: Wed Nov 19 16:39:01 2008
> New Revision: 185096
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185096
> 
> Log:
>   Add a GPT-aware variant of zfsboot which should be used in a similar 
manner
>   to gptboot, i.e. installed in a freebsd-boot partition using /sbin/gpart 
or
>   /sbin/gpt.
>   
>   Tweak the /boot/loader ZFS support so that it can find ZFS pools that are
>   contained in GPT partitions.

This is very cool!  What I would actually like to do if possible is to 
make /boot/gptboot handle both UFS and ZFS (it can key off the UUIDs) so we 
only need a single bootstrap for GPT for both filesystems.  We have a 
relatively large amount of room for gptboot (we could easily do 128k if 
needbe) and I'd like to take advantage of that to make the user experience 
simpler.

-- 
John Baldwin