From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 00:15:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15E6106564A for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 00:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eam1edward@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C74C8FC0A for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 00:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so6053114obc.13 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:15:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type; bh=1aJn9nqTgbS/2OjEbJBsG5kS4/uQwPvIHfmgYE3+dvc=; b=nxx1tHiZmuoiuvP1Hz5flGBZzgmfLu2RTSZ1AZ3fltVL5r09b3eT/uYF7bpE355zvh pKyzPoP2vd/+S5GqHziP8CDpl3paBL1RG/5yL9Px5yPE3VYgtZ31cnrE0EgtUeGCokji WJBdyx2CWgndFRi7x6/MITX7aeWgkCfE09ar30suiPIGr2R5VdX8DHwc4Y0tCkiWeOfB F2JqlEmNCWuoRgMwIscgDIcTspBmHIZ44kq2Bwoq+y+vq6RHI7Gn3xr45xT55/D8wcyJ w1DsithKXOfQCLPHmU7CwwqvLigLqQ3pzNSJkrHgj8geEf/hPca6QY/uzTjt7BEa/J0k RelA== Received: by 10.182.5.169 with SMTP id t9mr6405817obt.57.1335831305022; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([174.134.109.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id yw3sm18496313obb.7.2012.04.30.17.15.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F9F2C49.9040804@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:20:25 -0700 From: Edward M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120424 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: which filesytems zfs needs to function X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 00:15:05 -0000 Hi, I was running FreeBSD 9.0 using ZFS with the following setup on one harddrive: *(5) Create appropriate filesystems (feel free to improvise!).* zfs create zroot/usr zfs create zroot/usr/home zfs create zroot/var zfs create-o compression=on-o exec=on-o setuid=off zroot/tmp zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o setuid=off zroot/usr/ports zfs create-o compression=off-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/usr/ports/distfiles zfs create-o compression=off-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/usr/ports/packages zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/usr/src zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/crash zfs create-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/db zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o exec=on-o setuid=off zroot/var/db/pkg zfs create-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/empty zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/log zfs create-o compression=gzip -o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/mail zfs create-o exec=off-o setuid=off zroot/var/run zfs create-o compression=lzjb-o exec=on-o setuid=off zroot/var/tmp from: http://www.aisecure.net/2012/01/16/rootzfs/ However I decided to reinstall FreeBSD such for thisparticular reason:-) to see if is possible to create lessfilesystems, if so, which ones in order for zfs to work properly or are the ones mention up above required, even though it says feel free to improvise? Hope gave all needed info:-)