From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 1 17:38:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C750E106567C for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:38:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7EF8FC21 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m21HG54l069104; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:16:05 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 20:16:05 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Forrest Aldrich In-Reply-To: <47C88085.60300@forrie.com> Message-ID: <20080301201308.F49885@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com> <20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> <20080229215535.GA5670@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47C88085.60300@forrie.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:16:05 +0300 (MSK) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:38:45 -0000 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 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------