From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 23 13:30:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FD4209 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-x22d.google.com (mail-qc0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DD8F2EE8 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id l13so438731qcy.4 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:30:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=IV1FGUYAxXXm0BaI/DM1O/jiKH932qNsPhLzYxW0iYQ=; b=O94hYhthlVW9O0iXj7N9nRJITmFZU+6ylBsw1pE+QyfRJWq9btTiYax7otNIfXmoji sFSZK4C2flwopXuVyfvUmGCUoRZ7d4ynbyPP58gSo1668gSQ9+/TATUFSjnb96cGFGPB 1MVidjdovlSXlmoIhLe1PaBpwJPgTeOcbx5/TNWhZIMOd9i84YVNLUV7+BMMvuYF/PfW keAHCP5vpPzoD1dTBdREUJ5olcVmrwrCd2xA91Pp1jQGwwjo2oiU27aRHAFVBEoeiOKh f4LpNtY1gq8dbwHU8DqwnEk+cKP//ng00qS3D5uZggpUrBRv+SjY8Jl2BFVKjKB2Ie93 Nwxw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.106.131 with SMTP id x3mr1922263qco.1.1382535047791; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.180.233 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:30:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5267CE4B.8050602@vangyzen.net> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:30:47 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 10.0-BETA1 ZFS install -- /var/empty read-only From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Eric van Gyzen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:48 -0000 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Eric van Gyzen wrote: >> I just installed 10.0-BETA1 using the [very cool] new automatic ZFS >> option. I noticed that /var/empty is not mounted read-only. I suspect >> it could be. I made it so, and sshd still seemed to work. >> >> Eric > > I don't think there's a standard for how to break down the ZFS pool to > individual datasets. If the install made only a single dataset for > /var you would then effectively get a read-write /var/empty. The *The same applies* > applies if you install on UFS and don't assign a separate filesystem > for /var/empty like the default install does in fact. > > -Kimmo