ZFS v28 (Re: ZFS support in GRUB)
2010/8/10, Robert Millan <rmh@gnu.org>:
> - Only ZFS up to (and including) version 14 is supported. [...] complete
> support for ZFS in root isn't currently being worked on. We need
> help in this area.
Taking [1] into account I guess there will be interest for v28 support
in GRUB sometime in the near future.
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019541.html
It's come to my attention, after speaking with the Solaris engineer
working on GRUB 2, that Oracle has an update of GRUB ZFS code
to a recent version. They have plans to release this code, I suppose
with Solaris 11 (which will presumably use GRUB 2), but I don't know
details about their timeline yet.
OTOH, latest OpenSolaris / Illumos already have recent ZFS code,
but it's for GRUB Legacy. GRUB 2's ZFS implementation (in
grub-extras) is based on an earlier version of OpenSolaris' grub-0.97,
and it shouldn't be too hard to resync it if necessary.
If someone is interested in doing this resync, I recommend you speak
with Vladimir Serbinenko first.
> - Multi-device arrays are not supported.
They're also working on this (striped arrays and RAIDZ).
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Robert Millan
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