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authorallanjude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>2015-03-17 20:15:49 +0000
committerallanjude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>2015-03-17 20:15:49 +0000
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Document that nextboot(8) doesn't work as expected with ZFS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2087 Submitted by: feld (request) Reviewed by: feld Approved by: bcr (mentor) Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
-rw-r--r--sbin/reboot/nextboot.88
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8 b/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8
index 7d41352..14573e2 100644
--- a/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8
+++ b/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 31, 2012
+.Dd March 17, 2015
.Dt NEXTBOOT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -130,3 +130,9 @@ It is also my first attempt to write in Forth.
Finally, it does some evil things like writing to the file system before it
has been checked.
If it scrambles your file system, do not blame me.
+.Pp
+.Xr loader 8
+is only able to read ZFS, not write to it.
+.Pa nextboot.conf
+will NOT be reset in case of a kernel boot failure.
+
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