Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:16:05 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? Message-ID: <20080301201308.F49885@woozle.rinet.ru> 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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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: FA> Thank you for the replies. It seems that / and/or at least /boot should FA> remain UFS/UFS2 and the rest of the system ZFS, if so desired. FA> FA> I wonder if it's possible to convert a filesystem from UFS/2 to ZFS ;-) FA> Probably not without another disk nearby to mirror and copy back the FA> content. You can even do it with single disk. Hint: install minimal system into 'b' partition (your future swap ;-) and boot into it's single user mode with ad(0,b) response to boot: prompt (press space at early boot stage) AFAIK no in-place conversion from USF to ZFS is possible or would ever be ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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