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Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ?
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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