From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 23:38:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE4B1065694 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:38:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: from mail.h3q.com (mail.h3q.com [213.73.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2758FC1B for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 67237 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2010 23:38:03 -0000 Received: from mail.h3q.com (HELO mail.h3q.com) (cryx) by mail.h3q.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Aug 2010 23:38:03 -0000 Message-ID: <4C687A5A.3060808@h3q.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:38:02 +0200 From: Philipp Wuensche User-Agent: Postbox 1.1.5 (Macintosh/20100613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <20100813191521.GB2006@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20100813191521.GB2006@garage.freebsd.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting sysinstalled FreeBSD into ZFS-only server. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:38:05 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > I'm also open to comments on the layout I proposed. I use it for quite a > while now and I tried different ones before too, but this one I simply > find the best. If our official installer will support creating ZFS-only > install, I'll be forcing this layout, so if you think something is > _very_ wrong about it, let me know. NIce idea, using dummy-filesystems to get filesystems in the right position! But my fear is that the usage of dummy-filesystem like system/usr and system/var will confuse some users. If someone starts to mess around in /var/db or some other subdirectory in /usr or /var and thinks he is safe by taking a snapshot of /var or /usr before, just to find out those snapshots didn't include stuff he messed around with. Greetings, Philipp