[OmniOS-discuss] [zfs] SSD alignment, EFI label rpool support

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at nexenta.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
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>> It looks like Solaris 11 supports booting from an EFI-labled rpool now; given grub is GPL, presumably they had to release the modifications to do that? I wonder how cleanly they would integrate into illumos, it would be nice to get away from the requirement for SMI labels on rpool.
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> ISTR S11 switched to GRUB2.  That would be interesting, but a non-trivial testing task, to say the least.

Thats correct.  I believe Seth did a large chunk of that work.

I'd like to investigate another alternative altogether -- the BSD licensed loader that FreeBSD uses.  I just haven't had cycles. :-)

	- Garrett

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