From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 11 07:19:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B861B0B39A for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:19:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:c4ea:bd49:619b:6cb3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D3941823 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:19:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 50E1211AA6 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/50E1211AA6; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: Desktop reconfig To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <570B4FF8.4030906@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 08:19:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LUUBs8PGX5eEExeGQrmNHxg1NXBBqssV9" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.1 at smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:19:32 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --LUUBs8PGX5eEExeGQrmNHxg1NXBBqssV9 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="e41EJFchipOKIkjjBTbStdULOxBxUPLIn" From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <570B4FF8.4030906@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Desktop reconfig References: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> --e41EJFchipOKIkjjBTbStdULOxBxUPLIn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/04/2016 15:32, Baho Utot wrote: > New setup will have freebsd on raidz with Win7 on the SSD only. > > Can I install the four drives for the raidz, configure and install > freebsd then remove ada1 when I have it all working? or should I remov= e > ada1 then install the raidz drives install then reinstall ada1 and the > pull everything over? Yes, this should work fine, but you'll need to be careful that you don't accidentally overwrite the wrong drive from the installer. Depending on the details of your hardware it's entirely possible that the new drives you add for ZFS could end up as ada0, ada1, ... with your previous drives as ada4 and ada5. Taking out the original ada1 while doing the initial install would be a simple way of avoiding that. ZFS should continue to work just fine as you shuffle the disks around. > Will the installer handle installing root to zfs raidz? or will I have > to wing it? Yes, this will work absolutely fine. The installer can work with any of the different RAID levels provided by ZFS. > Going for a clean install and synth to do the ports. In the long term, you don't want to mix ZFS and UFS in the same system -- the two filesystems will fight over memory. It shouldn't be a problem to do that temporarily while you're copying your data onto ZFS though, so long as you unmount the UFS partitions once you're done. 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