Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:52 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki Message-ID: <d36406630912210803g3e482d5wc289ad3f667f917c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
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2009/12/21 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net<mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> > > Hi, > > yesterday went through the RootOnZFS (gpt mirror version) and here's a few > notes: > 1) You cannot use the install CD. It doesn't have a livefs and so you can > never do the actual install in 2.2. The DVD will work and the USB image. I > ended up using the livefs CD and the USB image, cause I didn't want to > loose > Maybe that procedure needs modifying a bit, but you can do its from disk1. As i have. Things are a bit clumsy but it does work. > the work I already did. > 2) `gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4' gave me 'active: device not configured'. > This error isn't mentioned (debugflags didn't help) in the wiki nor the > missing DIAGNOSTICS section in the gpart man page. In my case the system > booted, but it's nice to know what the error means and whether you can > ignore > it. > I think this has already been coved by other posters > 3) By adding the swap partitions on the two mirrored disks to /etc/fstab > top > actually shows the sum of these as available swap. My expectation is/was > that > the swap would be mirrored and thus I'd have only the size of one swap > partition. If this isn't the case, can I get by with 1 of the two since > they're double the intended size or should one use 2 and thus create them > half > the intended size? > No as if you loose a disk you will only have 1/2 the swap you need. > 4) The given mount points have sane defaults, however, I use cvs to > checkout > the ports. It would be nice to have one example where data is already in a > directory tree and how one can promote it to a zfs filesystem with special > properties. > > You cant really promote something to a file system. The ideal situation is you create the fs before you unpack the ports tar ball (or cvs). Otherwise, rename /usr/ports (/usr/ports.old/, create the fs as desired, then rsync the files there (or cp, or mv). Then delete the old tree. > Thanks to everyone contributing to this article and keeping it current, bar > the installation media, everything was a breeze! > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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