From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 7 22:19:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2813A44F; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from onyx.glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:c200::face]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B687E8; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from glenbarber.us (75-146-225-65-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [75.146.225.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gjb) by onyx.glenbarber.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F1AE623F645; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:19:38 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.0 onyx.glenbarber.us F1AE623F645 Authentication-Results: onyx.glenbarber.us; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:19:37 -0500 From: Glen Barber To: Cody Ritts Subject: Re: Wiki / ZFS Booting Message-ID: <20130307221937.GG1551@glenbarber.us> References: <51390F88.3070101@caltel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2NLGdgz3UMHa/lqP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51390F88.3070101@caltel.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:19:40 -0000 --2NLGdgz3UMHa/lqP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Cody, On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:07:04PM -0800, Cody Ritts wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > I have some suggestions for the wiki regarding root on zfs. >=20 > In short, I think it would be EXTREMELY helpful to consolidate all of=20 > the pages into two. >=20 > 1. Booting to ZFS > 2. Advanced ZFS partitioning >=20 > The long story is that I have just spent several days documenting my=20 > efforts to get multiple systems to boot from ZFS. First, thank you to=20 > all who have contributed to the wiki, I would not have been able to get= =20 > it done without you. >=20 > That being said these are 11 pages I have found on the wiki: >=20 > /RootOnZFS, /RootOnZFS/UFSBoot, /RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition,=20 > /RootOnZFS/ZFSBootSlice, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot,=20 > /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1,=20 > /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2, /RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE,=20 > /ZFSOnRoot, /ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot >=20 Yes, this is a bit excessive... :( > I don't want to just complain that it should be better, I would like to= =20 > share the internal documentation that I put together from all of the web= =20 > pages, man pages, and server testing. >=20 Appreciated. :-) > I am not 100% certain I am doing everything the "right" way, but I am=20 > 100% CERTAIN that I have COPY/PASTED each and every one of these=20 > commands into a FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE LiveCD shell and then successfully=20 > booted. >=20 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-conf= iguration/ Hope this helps. Glen --2NLGdgz3UMHa/lqP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----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----- --2NLGdgz3UMHa/lqP--