From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 23:14:48 2007 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 A9B4716A418 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:14:48 +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 60DB913C45A for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:14:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [10.29.62.13] (helo=[10.29.62.13]) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1IdwM4-000814-La; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:13:16 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <124F2247-634C-4796-B69C-2920FA8326F5@ish.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Aristedes Maniatis Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:14:40 +1000 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 0.1 TW_ZF BODY: Odd Letter Triples with ZF Subject: Installing a system onto ZFS 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: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:14:48 -0000 Yesterday I tried to install (using the August 2007 snapshot iso) a new FreeBSD system using ZFS. This is what I did: * boot from CD * type "load ZFS" on the boot loader prompt (could this be made default for FreeBSD 7 release?) * drop into the live CD shell and use fdisk, disklabel and zfs to create the appropriate partitions (/boot which is UFS2 and /usr /tmp / var / which are ZFS). ZFS volumes are created inside ad4s1d. A problem is then that the installer tries to mount the partitions and presumably knows nothing about the ZFS partitions I mounted within the live CD shell. Is there a way to do this, or am I expecting too much of the installer tool at this early stage of ZFS in FreeBSD? It appears that the only alternative is to install a full system onto UFS2 partitions, install a second disk with ZFS volumes, copy across the data and set up the boot loader on the second drive, then discard the first drive. Is that what others are doing? Cheers 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