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| author | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-07-23 06:04:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-07-23 06:04:05 +0000 |
| commit | 3b74102205602b4896f03e1c8de5bfe67c9095d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 69b2b8787148158e836f6453cefc102fbb33f2e0 /UPDATING | |
| parent | 1a61d993305688f5d9bbe89a3efa78aebbc01718 (diff) | |
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Older zfs boot blocks don't support symlinks. install the link to
zfsloader as a hard link. While newer ones do, the whole point of the
link was to transition to the new world order smoothly. A hard link is
less flexible, but it works and will result in fewer bumps. Adjust
UPDATING entry to match.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=336626
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
| -rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 61efdfba398fb..d2e856a59f232 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: 20180720: zfsloader's functionality has now been folded into loader. zfsloader is no longer necesasary once you've updated your - boot blocks. For a transition period, there will be a symlink - in place from zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition - until the boot blocks can be updated. + boot blocks. For a transition period, we will install a + hardlink for zfsloader to loader to allow a smooth transition + until the boot blocks can be updated (hard link because old + zfs boot blocks don't understand symlinks). 20180719: New uid:gid added, ntpd:ntpd (123:123). Be sure to run mergemaster |