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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by Freaky on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:41AM (#8652845)
> FreeBSD needs to either port their ZFS drivers to their bootloader, or employ a hacky method of having a UFS boot volume that then points to a ZFS root partition (which, sadly, is how FreeBSD currently works).

A ZFS-aware loader hit CURRENT in late 2008, and a dedicated zfsloader for use from (gpt)zfsboot hit the stable branches in late 2009.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by laumars on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:36PM (#8653469)
AFAIK it's not in RELEASE yet though.
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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by Freaky on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:41PM (#8653504)
They were in 7.3-RELEASE, March 2010.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.3R/announce.html

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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by laumars on Monday November 24, 2014 @01:06PM (#8653658)
Just looked at the config on my file server and it turns out I'm booting FreeBSD in this way. I have no idea why I thought I was bootstrapping from UFS (possibly because I still had to manually create a boot GPT partition and since forgotten why?)

Anyhow, thank you for the correction :)

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