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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