May be of interest to the ZFS users on here. There's been some changes which should make ZFS root installs a lot easier in the future:
CURRENT now has the ability to boot from ZFS without needing the pool in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache. As mentioned in the mail, this should make building the pool on another machine or splitting an existing root mirror into a new system easy, and just plain ZFS installs less awkward.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-November/038177.html
There's also been a change a few months back to not require the vfs.root.mountfrom variable. This is now set based on the value of the bootfs property in the pool.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-November/015753.html
I'm not sure what releases or STABLE branches these changes will be available in though.
CURRENT now has the ability to boot from ZFS without needing the pool in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache. As mentioned in the mail, this should make building the pool on another machine or splitting an existing root mirror into a new system easy, and just plain ZFS installs less awkward.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-November/038177.html
There's also been a change a few months back to not require the vfs.root.mountfrom variable. This is now set based on the value of the bootfs property in the pool.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-November/015753.html
I'm not sure what releases or STABLE branches these changes will be available in though.
