From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 28 18:06:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B6C10656F6 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:06:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from outgoing02.lava.net (pie.lava.net [IPv6:2001:1888:0:1:230:48ff:fe5b:3b8c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF1D8FC26 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:06:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by outgoing02.lava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B53D171D40; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:06:39 -1000 (HST) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id D42E9153882; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:06:38 -1000 (HST) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:06:38 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Matthew Dillon Message-ID: <20090228180637.GA26264@lava.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4E614185-A54E-43B8-8C07-4BA901DE5861@drsns.com> <49A84B63.5080903@delphij.net> <200902280321.n1S3LFxR018622@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902280321.n1S3LFxR018622@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS root File System X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:06:43 -0000 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 -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services