From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 9 22:18:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBA2A01BD2 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A1301F3D for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:18:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t89MIpxB018977 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:18:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Storage question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net> <20150909150626.5c3b99e5.freebsd@edvax.de> <55F031A0.40500@hiwaay.net> <55F0A0E7.1060709@sneakertech.com> <55F0A7AB.3000802@physics.umn.edu> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55F0B04B.6070004@hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:24:21 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55F0A7AB.3000802@physics.umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:18:54 -0000 On 09/09/15 16:48, Graham Allan wrote: > On 9/9/2015 4:13 PM, Quartz wrote: >> >> The 10.x installer can set all this up for you if you use the 'root on >> zfs' wizard. You can look at what it does and then learn how to do it >> manually on 9.x > > The 9.3 installer includes automatic ZFS partitioning too; it might > still be labelled as "experimental" but it works just fine. It might > seem like it's making more datasets than necessary (eg under /var) but > they come for free with ZFS so you may as well make use of them. It > also uses some subtleties I never quite understood until reading > Michael Lucas and Allan Jude's ZFS book, like the /usr dataset with > "canmount=no". > > G. Perhaps that label should be changed. I think I recall seeing that when I was provisioning this machine last year, & it sorta cemented the notion that I didn't want to fiddle w/ ZFS. No point in scaring people away if it is really ready for prime-time. $0.02, no more, no less .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.