From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 21:55:35 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 B072F1065672 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2EBC8FC20 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 96E381CC038; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:55:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:55:35 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Ulf Lilleengen Message-ID: <20080229215535.GA5670@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Forrest Aldrich 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 21:55:35 -0000 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 |