Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:42:03 -0500 From: Graham Allan <allan@physics.umn.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55F0A7AB.3000802@physics.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <55F0A0E7.1060709@sneakertech.com> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net> <20150909150626.5c3b99e5.freebsd@edvax.de> <55F031A0.40500@hiwaay.net> <55F0A0E7.1060709@sneakertech.com>
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On 9/9/2015 4:13 PM, Quartz wrote: > > The 10.x installer can set all this up for you if you use the 'root on > zfs' wizard. You can look at what it does and then learn how to do it > manually on 9.x The 9.3 installer includes automatic ZFS partitioning too; it might still be labelled as "experimental" but it works just fine. It might seem like it's making more datasets than necessary (eg under /var) but they come for free with ZFS so you may as well make use of them. It also uses some subtleties I never quite understood until reading Michael Lucas and Allan Jude's ZFS book, like the /usr dataset with "canmount=no". G.
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