From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 14:54:36 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 3C91C1065673 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 14:54:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: from keltia.net (unknown [IPv6:2a01:240:fe5c::41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42BC8FC0A for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 14:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr (aran.keltia.net [88.191.250.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: roberto) by keltia.net (Postfix/TLS) with ESMTPSA id 205A586DC; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:54:32 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Kaya Saman Message-ID: <20100517145432.GB80288@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> References: <4BEF2F9C.7080409@netscape.net> <4BEF3137.4080203@netscape.net> <20100516001351.GA50879@icarus.home.lan> <4BEF4A73.8060905@netscape.net> <20100516015850.GA55302@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100516015850.GA55302@icarus.home.lan> X-Operating-System: MacOS X / Macbook Pro - FreeBSD 7.2 / Dell D820 SMP User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (keltia.net); Mon, 17 May 2010 16:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Quick ZFS mirroring question for non-mirrored pool 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: Mon, 17 May 2010 14:54:36 -0000 According to Jeremy Chadwick: > There are many people here who have gone through the pain (IMHO) of > getting ZFS to boot on FreeBSD, and it still isn't as simple nor It is not as painful as it sounds (cf my own tutorial at [1]) and it offers advantages over UFS+ZFS such as snapshots for the system, pool-size vs filesystem sizes and so on. [1] http://www.keltia.net/howtos/zfsboot -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In memoriam to Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/