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Date:      Tue, 4 Oct 2016 08:14:24 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: complete clone/restore from a ZFS-based system replication stream
Message-ID:  <20161004011423.GA43802@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1610031641510.59114@wonkity.com>
References:  <20160926154720.GA75556@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <688eec35-bc7b-ae05-b765-106933b522d1@sentex.net> <20160929024222.GA35090@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20161001043526.GA95816@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1610031641510.59114@wonkity.com>

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Warren Block wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Here are the steps I used to restore a "level zero" zfs file onto a
> >>> new/fresh mirror.
> >>
> >> Mike, thanks to your and others' help I have developed a solution
> >> which works for me, at least partially. The only problem with the
> >> solution is that I create the second pool on /dev/vtbd2p3, but when
> >> the new system boots, there is no /dev/vtbd2 (naturally) and the pool
> >> uses /dev/diskid/DISK-BHYVE-8054-2C08-770Ap3 for the physical device,
> >> burying all /dev/vtbd0p* devices.
> >
> > Maybe the solution is using ZFS on whole disk, without GPT partitions,
> > with zfsboot(8) and ZFS volumes for swap?
> 
> zvols for swap is generally not recommended.  It has the overhead of the 
> filesystem.

Solaris is cool with zvols for swap. Do we have some drawbacks
peculiar to FreeBSD?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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