Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:41:43 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration Message-ID: <20151211134143.5604454a@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org> References: <20151210132202.Horde.L-UfLdFlWeCANimy0-JWSdg@mail.parts-unknown.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > This is about my old notebook. It has 3GB of memory, which is pretty > marginal for ZFS. Adding more memory is not an option (I wish it were, > but ASUS solders the memory onto the board with these systems). ZFS can be patched to work reasonably well with a lot less than 3 GB of RAM: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594 > But there are a couple problems which are inclining me to reinstall. > First, the system is slow and I think ZFS isn't helping me. Second, I > can't for the life of me figure out how to get through a portion of > the make world step where the newly rebuilt base system is supposed to > be installed in single-user mode--I've been having to boot all the way > and do that installation on a fully live system (yes, that's worked). > ZFS isn't helping me here either (I don't have this problem on UFS > systems). It's not obvious to me why you blame ZFS for the installworld issue and it seems unlikely to me that switching to UFS is the only way to solve it. Fabian [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZqxIcACgkQBYqIVf93VJ31kwCgtWPTFgBPwNPxibTQlNpMhgyA vtMAoK8G7+rHqCT8g7rzeYK219sQncR7 =1Qz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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