From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 19 19:43:47 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 B57CDA190FF for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF501F07 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [88.151.27.41] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoGLJ-0002v2-DQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:43:37 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.85 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoGLI-000GTI-Ee for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 19:43:36 +0000 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:43:35 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation progress Message-Id: <20151019204335.89b83ff2eff7213ca5c36556@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <56254484.8060003@hiwaay.net> References: <56254484.8060003@hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.28; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 24227@permanet.ie (plain) 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 19:43:47 -0000 On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:34:38 -0453.75 "William A. Mahaffey III" wrote: > 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 ? You can do that, but just as ZFS has inbuilt support for managing mounting of filesystems by setting the mountpoint property it also has inbuilt support for managing NFS exports via the sharenfs property. Do one or the other - not both. I started out using /etc/exports and switched to ZFS properties for reasons I have now forgotten. > Also, is use of tmpfs > compatible/OK w/ ZFS 'filesystem' ? Sure no reason why you shouldn't use both, except perhaps for memory pressure. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith