Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:01:06 -0600 From: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? Message-ID: <47C88EB2.5080108@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <47C88085.60300@forrie.com> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> <20080229215535.GA5670@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47C88085.60300@forrie.com>
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Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Thank you for the replies. It seems that / and/or at least /boot should > remain UFS/UFS2 and the rest of the system ZFS, if so desired. > > I wonder if it's possible to convert a filesystem from UFS/2 to ZFS ;-) > Probably not without another disk nearby to mirror and copy back the > content. No conversion - I ended up installing on UFS on one disk, creating a ZFS pool on a second disk, and then using sysutils/cpdup from ports to clone the install onto one or more ZFS filesystems. Barry
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