Craig Steinberger <Craig.Steinberger at Sun.COM> wrote:
> I wouldn't dispute anything Jeff has posted. It's entirely possible that
> UFS might be depreciated sometime in the future for boot or general file
> system usage.
>
> However, based on some reading that I've been doing, I don't believe the
> boot_archive environment will be ZFS based anytime in the near future.
100% correct!
> boot_archive can be either UFS or ISOFS, and I don't think that's going
> to change for a while. Since all GRUB does is load multiboot and the
> boot_archive into memory, ZFS support will not be needed in GRUB.
And as UFS is currently the only _writable_ FS for a boot archive, it is the
only way to implement a life CD. So I am sure than UFS will not be deprecated
soon.
J?rg
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