Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 23:19:11 +0200 From: Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com> To: Lorenzo Perone <lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS boot on zfs mirror Message-ID: <4A1B0B4F.1020106@h3q.com> In-Reply-To: <29579856-69F7-4CDC-A52A-B414A40180ED@yellowspace.net>
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Lorenzo Perone wrote: > > Hello to all, > > Having licked blood now, and read the news from Kip Macy about > >> - zfs boot for all types now works > > > I was wondering if anyone has some updated tutorial on how to achieve a > zfs-only bootable FreeBSD with a mirrored zpool. My own howto and script to do the stuff automated: http://outpost.h3q.com/patches/manageBE/create-FreeBSD-ZFS-bootfs.txt But beware, it is meant to use with http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE afterwards. But the steps are the same. > Searching around I found this tutorial on how to set up a ZFS bootable > system, which is mostly straightforward: > > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/ > > However it leaves a few questions open... How am I supposed to make a > zfs mirror out of it? Suppose I have ad4 and ad6, should I repeat the > exact same gpart-steps for both ad4 and ad6, and then make a zpool > create data mirror ad4p3 ad6p3? Exactly. > How about swap? I suppose it will be on > one of the disks? I keep swap in a seperate partition. You could either use two swap partition, each on one disk or use gmirror to mirror a single swap partition to be safe from disk crash. > And what if I start with one disk and add the second > one later with zpool attach? This will work. Just do the same gpart commands on the second disk and use zpool attach. greetings, philipphome | help
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