>> ... the current ZFS boot support in GRUB doesn't allow gzip to be >> used for the actual root dataset so I don't see that choice being >> made. > > Would this complicate still further any possibility of being able to boot > OpenSolaris from (say) a Linux grub, assuming that Linux grub ever > becomes able to understand ZFS? >
No, not really; the general ZFS support in GRUB is the problematic part. Dave