Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:20:43 -0400 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: DTD <support@safeport.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zfs newbie Message-ID: <2b3bd0c8-204d-2f9b-2d63-cca853f5893c@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2109071736520.87853@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2109071736520.87853@bucksport.safeport.com>
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DTD wrote on 9/7/21 5:51 PM: > Following the default 12.2 zfs install I got one pool (zroot) and a > dataset for each of the traditional mount points. So zfs list shows: > > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > zroot 279G 6.75T 88K /zroot > zroot/ROOT 1.74G 6.75T 88K none > zroot/ROOT/default 1.74G 6.75T 1.74G / > zroot/tmp 176K 6.75T 176K /tmp > zroot/usr 277G 6.75T 88K /usr > zroot/usr/home 276G 6.75T 276G /usr/home > zroot/usr/ports 88K 6.75T 88K /usr/ports > zroot/usr/src 670M 6.75T 670M /usr/src > zroot/var 47.5M 6.75T 88K /var > zroot/var/audit 88K 6.75T 88K /var/audit > zroot/var/crash 88K 6.75T 88K /var/crash > zroot/var/log 820K 6.75T 820K /var/log > zroot/var/mail 46.3M 6.75T 46.3M /var/mail > zroot/var/tmp 88K 6.75T 88K /var/tmp > > I had consultant configure another service for us. He set up the disk > array with one dataset. so zfs list on this system give: > > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > zroot 2.65G 13.2T 2.62G legacy > > From a sysadmin view I rather like the multiple datasets. Are there > advantages to one over the other? I see no advantages to me in the single dataset. What do you see from zpool status? I'm wondering if this is not directly on hardware, such as a VM under VMware.
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