Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:19:37 -0500 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Cody Ritts <cr@caltel.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wiki / ZFS Booting Message-ID: <20130307221937.GG1551@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <51390F88.3070101@caltel.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Cody, On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:07:04PM -0800, Cody Ritts wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some suggestions for the wiki regarding root on zfs. > > In short, I think it would be EXTREMELY helpful to consolidate all of > the pages into two. > > 1. Booting to ZFS > 2. Advanced ZFS partitioning > > The long story is that I have just spent several days documenting my > efforts to get multiple systems to boot from ZFS. First, thank you to > all who have contributed to the wiki, I would not have been able to get > it done without you. > > That being said these are 11 pages I have found on the wiki: > > /RootOnZFS, /RootOnZFS/UFSBoot, /RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition, > /RootOnZFS/ZFSBootSlice, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot, > /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1, > /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE, > /ZFSOnRoot, /ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot > Yes, this is a bit excessive... :( > I don't want to just complain that it should be better, I would like to > share the internal documentation that I put together from all of the web > pages, man pages, and server testing. > Appreciated. :-) > I am not 100% certain I am doing everything the "right" way, but I am > 100% CERTAIN that I have COPY/PASTED each and every one of these > commands into a FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE LiveCD shell and then successfully > booted. > I did not look in-depth at your attached input, but here is a good reference for what Pawel considers the "right way" to do it (for various degrees). http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ Hope this helps. Glen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRORJ5AAoJEFJPDDeguUajRk0IAK2O3iXzY0eQVGI65H7Phiqy PHtkEbYuKGM6C/PTfIkps9a2G9EDTgI/pr3jHS0z7JnpMW6OgWDKqxmkd58rRHyh Y42B29YYwnSd05A1txiR+ulnMoBKOhOjWSF5u2tKqKZiNHtQio6iKGZe88B84Cfi lAsIYU1Vn2f+9kctGelX5VBN9Fc9Ms32CjSnAMsAHEmmRyvT0JkDlliej0EEpMA8 d/UqRTfDL+Wi4FhwqHrufDK4A1oBWHf2Fc6QiOfh/7stteBFMbNXGlx1d7yhrLbL RjjCvYVqJ/n2M/kDBrpzxHA48uaA3+rcNJWFEvNo+SwHeA2GMkZ+Yc0UihxMXag= =JMzJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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