From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 8 00:40:03 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C870482 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 00:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cr@caltel.com) Received: from mail1.caltel.com (mail1.caltel.com [66.102.144.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F55DAB for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 00:40:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8EAOExOVFCZpCq/2dsb2JhbABExE6BdXSCLAEBBAE4QAYLCyEWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBiAkGqCyTKY8TFoMqA4hsjV+FZYsMgyo X-IPAS-Result: Ap8EAOExOVFCZpCq/2dsb2JhbABExE6BdXSCLAEBBAE4QAYLCyEWDwkDAgECAUUTCAEBiAkGqCyTKY8TFoMqA4hsjV+FZYsMgyo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,804,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="16825288" Received: from host-170.a66-102-144.caltel.com (HELO codys-mac.local) ([66.102.144.170]) by smtp.caltel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA; 07 Mar 2013 16:39:54 -0800 Message-ID: <51393359.4090304@caltel.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:39:53 -0800 From: Cody Ritts Organization: CalTel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130216 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Wiki / ZFS Booting References: <51390F88.3070101@caltel.com> <20130307221937.GG1551@glenbarber.us> <513917AC.40401@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <513917AC.40401@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:40:03 -0000 > I agree. We should try to reduce the number of ZFS install howtos and > instead put our efforts into bringing it into the handbook. Maybe some > of these howtos are better serves as articles showing alternative ways > of doing these. I know that filesystem layout can be a very personal > thing for many users who want to lay out things their way and none > other. But we could give new users guiding principles on how to do the > basic setup and then help them make the right decisions for their > environment based on the experience gathered from these wiki pages. I don't think you could have summed up what I hoped could happen any better! I do hope that you will also consider keeping the MBR boot code in there. That was I think the most difficult piece of the puzzle. Everything is GPT centric, but I just got a brand new little intel atom device that will not boot off of the default GPT install. > Yes, I had a quick glance at it and I especially liked the first part > using SSH from the beginning. Thank you. If it was not for ssh and virtual machine snapshots, I think I would have abandoned ZFS until it made it into the handbook or installer. Thanks, Cody