From 68d15d29f8a34616e68bb975076461ab303d5a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: allanjude Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:39:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] MFC: r280191: Document that nextboot(8) doesn't work as expected with ZFS Approved by: eadler (mentor, implicit) Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc. --- sbin/reboot/nextboot.8 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8 b/sbin/reboot/nextboot.8 index eb383197ae8f..0d723981be68 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. +