Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:55:35 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? Message-ID: <20080229215535.GA5670@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no>
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:41:07PM +0100, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > 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 :) I'll take a moment to remind the OP that he should read the Known Problems/Issues page before deciding to do something as risky as put the root filesystem on ZFS. http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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