From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 22:23:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7E51065677 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:23:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jafa82@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.221.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605AE8FC16 for ; Sat, 8 May 2010 22:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so3483465qyk.13 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=LTLV49L/xO/e+WXJ0eiBIuFPl+1b45uE5xX7l92zVi8=; b=Oh2s28bViN0hfyhlQ+nEH4h2SwrwLXFKlAKAfHfskWSPn1LEO9brkZ4LCsr7/MYYDE ZzrXU+UdkSSTLlHfOfie7sZKTYqVX3Pu/A9A5nCJ8mGoJpbOmcGT/mOx4LKJ6n3rQNt3 3lTKSidANin2ezh0t0Vrd0mPoaGguYsPuOqMQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=RgMmUsxsXFDs+bbXWaEN7VBVff5fYWvcdLwwRqe9wMJXXgxI3lAZ5PwvNRWwPhUnzL gLI8LAooSC11Ai0Kmj7+PePxxIGqyJYi6vvCBEQZsqRJGtOzoXUT9uJ3C0WVO28CSWWE Usb4BBY5BZmKYKSgV2miil5SkVFNElq2kiTJ8= Received: by 10.229.99.143 with SMTP id u15mr1507276qcn.105.1273357402200; Sat, 08 May 2010 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merytaton.localnet (modemcable125.95-81-70.mc.videotron.ca [70.81.95.125]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f5sm2400331qcg.8.2010.05.08.15.23.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 May 2010 15:23:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Damien To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:23:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.5; i386; ; ) References: <201005021536.05389.jafa82@gmail.com> <20100504023457.GD7641@dmr.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20100504023457.GD7641@dmr.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005081823.18439.jafa82@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ZFS: separate pools X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jafa82@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 22:23:38 -0000 On Monday 03 May 2010 22:34:57 Emil Mikulic wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:16:57PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > Just some random data. I know when I was reading about ZFS I did > > come across some vague notion that zfs wanted the entire drive to > > better deal with queueing, not sure if that was official Sun docs or > > some random blog though... > > ZFS on Solaris only enables write caching when it's given an entire disk. > pjd@ has stated that this does not affect FreeBSD, only Solaris. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > So, correct me if I am wrong: 1- I need to let go the slice/partitions concepts and now think in matter of pool/filesystems ? 2- And assuming "1-" is right, I have to dedicate an entire disk to a zpool ? 3- If "2-" is also true, my preoccupation now is, when I shall need to reinstall the OS, what are the steps to go through in order to preserve my data - especially the "/home" filesystem -, across the two installations ?