Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:42:59 -0500 From: Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror Message-ID: <20120208134259.1da6e837.web@3dresearch.com>
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Hello Everyone, May be I should have searched more for answers, but after installing FreeBSD 9 with gmirror, I am wondering if the experts here have some recommendations for "best practices". 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really the recommendation to go with just / ? 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall to install FreeBSD 9? 3. It seems that setting up gmirror is more involved with GPT (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071); now I have a mirror for each of the filesystems /, /var, /tmp, etc. Is it OK to use gmirror in this way at all? 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize disks - correct? 3. Assuming one has enough RAM, is zfs mirror or raidz recommended over gmirror? Prior to FreeBSD 9, I used to take the the sysinstall defaults with some overrides as I thought appropriate and proceeded to set up gmirror - it was simple and not a lot of work, and a good way to make use of older systems... -- Janos Dohanics
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