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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:42:28 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: complete clone/restore from a ZFS-based system replication stream
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1610031641510.59114@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161001043526.GA95816@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
References:  <20160926154720.GA75556@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <688eec35-bc7b-ae05-b765-106933b522d1@sentex.net> <20160929024222.GA35090@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20161001043526.GA95816@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>

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On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Victor Sudakov wrote:
>>>
>>> Here are the steps I used to restore a "level zero" zfs file onto a
>>> new/fresh mirror.
>>
>> Mike, thanks to your and others' help I have developed a solution
>> which works for me, at least partially. The only problem with the
>> solution is that I create the second pool on /dev/vtbd2p3, but when
>> the new system boots, there is no /dev/vtbd2 (naturally) and the pool
>> uses /dev/diskid/DISK-BHYVE-8054-2C08-770Ap3 for the physical device,
>> burying all /dev/vtbd0p* devices.
>
> Maybe the solution is using ZFS on whole disk, without GPT partitions,
> with zfsboot(8) and ZFS volumes for swap?

zvols for swap is generally not recommended.  It has the overhead of the 
filesystem.



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