From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 23 13:30:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08E2E2 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qe0-x231.google.com (mail-qe0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5C382EAB for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f49.google.com with SMTP id a11so450002qen.36 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:29:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/9wXfLn+PpEwR+wQHqDzOZZ4fjM29dHDXi/Q83RFqGQ=; b=GH3TAcsOHYHALI7233gg+nmCZqkY20M6vL06wrrYkcBqsMddClF3KTs3TPCF1RZuym fpL5aCa/jNW/cdBBf7PTG9msUFSnqYOez0GqdQ5qIji0Q7vdrqLvGbODJAhd5D7MUT64 hfQ46wgF/O2PwOsZqdx1w7GcQf0o32WRJSqKBp5yscPyA9VNivDasFGy2hXHaUEm0TFW UvBDma4QZMD2ywfhHoTkAjsOophSLOqpxZCjqgFzuBSYaORSjUzGnwe5kSrT9wFk+kfx YDgludwrZD5lUR3EQNf1CYaDbp6uvrDqTCNqqMRb8beoEWgeGpOcjNSh1RRUVc2rvFEY 7rfg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.121.6 with SMTP id f6mr4009731qar.64.1382534999894; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.180.233 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:29:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5267CE4B.8050602@vangyzen.net> References: <5267CE4B.8050602@vangyzen.net> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:29:59 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 10.0-BETA1 ZFS install -- /var/empty read-only From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Eric van Gyzen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:30:00 -0000 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > I just installed 10.0-BETA1 using the [very cool] new automatic ZFS > option. I noticed that /var/empty is not mounted read-only. I suspect > it could be. I made it so, and sshd still seemed to work. > > Eric I don't think there's a standard for how to break down the ZFS pool to individual datasets. If the install made only a single dataset for /var you would then effectively get a read-write /var/empty. The applies if you install on UFS and don't assign a separate filesystem for /var/empty like the default install does in fact. -Kimmo