Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:06:38 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root File System Message-ID: <20090228180637.GA26264@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <200902280321.n1S3LFxR018622@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4E614185-A54E-43B8-8C07-4BA901DE5861@drsns.com> <49A84B63.5080903@delphij.net> <200902280321.n1S3LFxR018622@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:21:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> My experience with one of our people trying to do the same thing
> w/ HAMMER... we got it working, but it is not necessarily cleaner.
>
> I'd rather just boot from a small UFS /boot partition on 'a' (256M
> or 512M), followed by swap on 'b', followed by the big-ass root
> partition on 'd' using your favorite filesystem.
For those who want resilience, on FreeBSD you could also make that boot
partition mirrored across drives with gmirror.
-- Clifton
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