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

Dan McDonald danmcd at nexenta.com
Fri Aug 2 03:06:32 UTC 2013


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.

ISTR S11 switched to GRUB2.  That would be interesting, but a non-trivial testing task, to say the least.

Dan



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