From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 21:41:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB29106566C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:41:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from bene1.itea.ntnu.no (bene1.itea.ntnu.no [IPv6:2001:700:300:3::56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC9C8FC13 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:41:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D995316C6AA; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from carrot.studby.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:3::185]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C1B16C4F7; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:07 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen To: Forrest Aldrich Message-ID: <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bene1.itea.ntnu.no Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:41:10 -0000 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