Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:24:21 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55F0B04B.6070004@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55F0A7AB.3000802@physics.umn.edu> 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> <55F0A7AB.3000802@physics.umn.edu>
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On 09/09/15 16:48, Graham Allan wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps that label should be changed. I think I recall seeing that when
I was provisioning this machine last year, & it sorta cemented the
notion that I didn't want to fiddle w/ ZFS. No point in scaring people
away if it is really ready for prime-time. $0.02, no more, no less ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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