From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 11:49:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF3A1065675 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBAC8FC14 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so2067615fxm.13 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:49:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=rAjSE5ixTVk23VhwrrCrHbwLqUZUBKDpXapO/hMZhf0=; b=ceCPDj9EEMQT77lPc+10st9yMuyKrvBxYt0eBMXsejC1CofZyir637t4dN3TAKKqbI U2LDdbbRfCAr3ZswBRDgd1EgzDqMsgcNyiobCmjL9/cRiuU5TLONMmzr6RESQ7GsQvHG esm/lPURrYtOF8Yki7ULaPSWBPzEHaAqXXEio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kcBCTYO5S6GvGwvc/ESab8UwOFqhbQDycLW6qITW/m3iebG2i1KZ90klJ7pPMcrwmn +gN1aMP46ShEdeqxXi60CNxoDPsao1/CXzGnNIFEWp6lT0022N5lEehxsjwnMWa+8y6E QX4p7CRQjulzyGmo17sDGRbYuN/XKqIu9+mbQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.155.69 with SMTP id h5mr376168hbc.61.1280836179070; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.163.13 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 04:49:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <594535bccc011ccc8d2cabb2dc7fecb9@gmail.com> References: <594535bccc011ccc8d2cabb2dc7fecb9@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:49:39 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Joshua Isom Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ZFS boot with two disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:49:40 -0000 On 2 August 2010 20:06, Joshua Isom wrote: > I'm wanting to set up a simple home file server and basic dev box with > FreeBSD. I have two 500GB disks that I want to put in it, one of which is > empty after cleaning up. I hope to use gpt and zfs for the disks, but I'm > unsure about some parts. A lot of the stuff referring to booting doesn't > mention concating disks(I'll take my risks) for root. I do want the second > disk bootable as a fixit disk. > > For a fixit disk, is it better to use UFS or use ZFS for consistency? If I > use two pools, one for booting and the other for data, how much of the > system needs to be on the booting pool? I'm hoping to set up the disks > before putting into the new computer, so will adding the second disk's space > to the pool cause any problems? Everything I've looked at talks about > single disk booting or using a raid just for data storage, so this seems to > be a lesser used approach. > > And finally, would it just be better to stick with tried and true UFS with > the MBR or are the benefits good enough? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If you are adament that you want to start slicing up your disks into multiple pools you are probably better off ufs for os and zfs for data as you will have far less hassle doing this. Having said that I have a two pool system, on for os the rest for data and it works well. You might want to look at installing the fbsd will the pcbsd installer as it makes the zfs install fairly easy