From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 19 19:29:11 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 4BF68A19B3C for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:29:11 +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 2BD6A10AD for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:29:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t9JJT8QL027183 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:29:09 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: Installation progress Message-ID: <56254484.8060003@hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:34:38 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; 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: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:29:11 -0000 Well, I finally pulled the trigger on a ZFS install on my myth-TV box-to-be and .... Everything basically worked, 2 glitches, but I got worked around them & it is up & running, w/ 2X 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5" HDD's in an unmirrored pool, about 1.8 TiB total pool size. I am configuring it now, & have a couple of questions. If I want it to be a NFS server & export /home, do I just use that reference verbatim in my /etc/exports file & crank the server or is there more to it ? Also, is use of tmpfs compatible/OK w/ ZFS 'filesystem' ? Some particulars below: root@mythbox:/etc # df -h ; w ; pstat -hms ; uname -a ; hwclock -r ; date Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on zroot/ROOT/default 1.8T 449M 1.8T 0% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev zroot/home 1.8T 208k 1.8T 0% /home zroot/tmp 1.8T 176k 1.8T 0% /tmp zroot/usr 1.8T 1.3G 1.8T 0% /usr zroot/usr/local 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /usr/local zroot/var 1.8T 624k 1.8T 0% /var zroot/var/crash 1.8T 148k 1.8T 0% /var/crash zroot/var/db 1.8T 3.1M 1.8T 0% /var/db zroot/var/db/pkg 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /var/db/pkg zroot/var/empty 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /var/empty zroot/var/log 1.8T 208k 1.8T 0% /var/log zroot/var/mail 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /var/mail zroot/var/run 1.8T 216k 1.8T 0% /var/run zroot/var/tmp 1.8T 152k 1.8T 0% /var/tmp 4256ee1:/home 3.5T 996G 2.3T 30% /.amd_mnt/4256ee1/host/home jaguar:/home 3.4T 214G 3T 7% /.amd_mnt/jaguar/host/home q6600:/home 1.8T 1.2T 453G 74% /.amd_mnt/q6600/host/home 2:26PM up 4:36, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root v0 - 11:02PM - -csh (csh) wam pts/0 kabini1.local Tue12AM - -tcsh (tcsh) wam pts/1 kabini1.local 11:48PM - w Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/gpt/swap0 16384 0B 16G 0% /dev/gpt/swap1 16384 0B 16G 0% Total 32768 0B 32G 0% FreeBSD mythbox 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 hwclock: Command not found. Mon Oct 19 14:26:31 CDT 2015 root@mythbox:/etc # I followed the wiki page quite closely, w/ unmirrored pool being the main diff. TIA & have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.