From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 15:21:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E849E1065695 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5D88FC16 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-156-16-112.bna.bellsouth.net [70.156.16.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBLFLPGe059524 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:21:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: Mel Flynn In-Reply-To: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:21:20 -0600 Message-Id: <1261408880.2315.68.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:29 -0000 On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 06:00 -0900, Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday went through the RootOnZFS (gpt mirror version) and here's a few > notes: > 1) You cannot use the install CD. It doesn't have a livefs and so you can > never do the actual install in 2.2. The DVD will work and the USB image. I > ended up using the livefs CD and the USB image, cause I didn't want to loose > the work I already did. > 2) `gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4' gave me 'active: device not configured'. > This error isn't mentioned (debugflags didn't help) in the wiki nor the > missing DIAGNOSTICS section in the gpart man page. In my case the system > booted, but it's nice to know what the error means and whether you can ignore > it. This step *was* only required for some BIOS and I'm not sure that it ever worked as above. Previously, I had to use fdisk to set the active bit in the PMBR. In at least 7-STABLE+, installing bootcode via gpart will set the active bit in the PMBR, so this step is never required. robert. > 3) By adding the swap partitions on the two mirrored disks to /etc/fstab top > actually shows the sum of these as available swap. My expectation is/was that > the swap would be mirrored and thus I'd have only the size of one swap > partition. If this isn't the case, can I get by with 1 of the two since > they're double the intended size or should one use 2 and thus create them half > the intended size? > 4) The given mount points have sane defaults, however, I use cvs to checkout > the ports. It would be nice to have one example where data is already in a > directory tree and how one can promote it to a zfs filesystem with special > properties. > > Thanks to everyone contributing to this article and keeping it current, bar > the installation media, everything was a breeze! -- Robert Noland FreeBSD