From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Dec 11 12:57:37 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 9918E9D84EF for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de (smtprelay05.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.98]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CF121E48 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from [78.35.186.244] (helo=fabiankeil.de) by smtprelay05.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1a7N1B-0005Fo-Fg; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:41:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:41:43 +0100 From: Fabian Keil To: David Benfell Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/5Dtaar5U49rXRUla=VZ_zzL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Df-Sender: Nzc1MDY3 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: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:37 -0000 --Sig_/5Dtaar5U49rXRUla=VZ_zzL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Benfell wrote: > This is about my old notebook. It has 3GB of memory, which is pretty =20 > marginal for ZFS. Adding more memory is not an option (I wish it were, =20 > 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=3D187594 > But there are a couple problems which are inclining me to reinstall. =20 > First, the system is slow and I think ZFS isn't helping me. Second, I =20 > can't for the life of me figure out how to get through a portion of =20 > the make world step where the newly rebuilt base system is supposed to =20 > be installed in single-user mode--I've been having to boot all the way =20 > and do that installation on a fully live system (yes, that's worked). =20 > ZFS isn't helping me here either (I don't have this problem on UFS =20 > 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 --Sig_/5Dtaar5U49rXRUla=VZ_zzL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZqxIcACgkQBYqIVf93VJ31kwCgtWPTFgBPwNPxibTQlNpMhgyA vtMAoK8G7+rHqCT8g7rzeYK219sQncR7 =1Qz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/5Dtaar5U49rXRUla=VZ_zzL--