Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:07 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? Message-ID: <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com>
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On fre, feb 29, 2008 at 03:04:58pm -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I recently updated my existing 6.x systems to 7.0. Excited to see ZFS > support, after looking through the current documentation, it doesn't appear > we can use ZFS as the / filesystem, or am I mistaken (or is that even > advisable). The sysinstall doesn't seem to provide you with the option > for ZFS on the newly created partitions. So I could have / as UFS2 and > /usr (et al) as ZFS. > > Could someone clarify? Perhaps I missed something in the documentation. > Hi, You can use ZFS for the root filesystem, but you cannot boot from it yet. Guides for how to set up ZFS and what's supported can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS Sysinstall doesn't support ZFS yet, so you'll have to do some tricks after install to get ZFS up and running. Remember, the support is experimental. But I definately recommend to give it a try :) -- Ulf Lilleengen
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