From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 31 08:55:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F181106564A for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 08:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E648A8FC16 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 08:55:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [10.29.62.3] (port=61387) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MAhaZ-0007ru-1c; Sun, 31 May 2009 19:44:23 +1000 Message-Id: <8B50CE3F-FCC5-42D6-8FFE-591178F3DFB6@ish.com.au> From: Aristedes Maniatis To: Dan Naumov In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:43:39 +1000 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS NAS configuration question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 08:55:20 -0000 On 31/05/2009, at 4:41 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > To top that > off, even when/if you do it right, not your entire disk goes to ZFS > anyway, because you still do need a swap and a /boot to be non-ZFS, so > you will have to install ZFS onto a slice and not the entire disk and > even SUN discourages to do that. ZFS on root is still pretty new to FreeBSD, and until it gets ironed out and all the sysinstall tools support it nicely, it isn't hard to use a small UFS slice to get things going during boot. And there is nothing wrong with putting ZFS onto a slice rather than the entire disk: that is a very common approach. http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A