From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 21 16:03:54 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 8DE931065670 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144838FC0C for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so2342878fxm.14 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:03:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=FjQEp+cHMA6GqZPCckuZC8vVR97WtbIVWnZuwppLBRI=; b=qS4tGZKd2dyJjE8Q9ZsckNtpTbSxaQxXG1qv7jejKEGvT4iufxl6mn6VmMWvN9vyYV MKIGoZhhNLyKxgIXnnBtm2CRU2fkiOjrfCsg93dMt++OR7d1TlLn+1j9tzIpnUA3R7C/ d1sGtBsKfpej4jV5IcUBdvHpAvK/bisOoyyiQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=eaMD0QJgFiUDq/CwvCoJcrE0nHq0Om77bC+BZVRLzQHQVHLz3Ba0ZqoDnNTPPl7tGt p/hX0Tt0q5gpymZXxhoj9deeSC8xSUV5JwzlaYPZwr606ukvqX1WSqYeMP2fLGloyAHm j+D16UjAAhA1bkNvnhKkc/QvivMuWKzgiJznc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.189.12 with SMTP id r12mr153933hbh.94.1261411432811; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:03:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:52 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Mel Flynn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 16:03:54 -0000 2009/12/21 Mel Flynn > > 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 > Maybe that procedure needs modifying a bit, but you can do its from disk1. As i have. Things are a bit clumsy but it does work. > 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. > I think this has already been coved by other posters > 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? > No as if you loose a disk you will only have 1/2 the swap you need. > 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. > > You cant really promote something to a file system. The ideal situation is you create the fs before you unpack the ports tar ball (or cvs). Otherwise, rename /usr/ports (/usr/ports.old/, create the fs as desired, then rsync the files there (or cp, or mv). Then delete the old tree. > Thanks to everyone contributing to this article and keeping it current, bar > the installation media, everything was a breeze! > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >