Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:46:42 +0300 From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS NAS configuration question Message-ID: <cf9b1ee00906020146q149b5c8aq57759917784ff58@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090602095228.8ff3654c.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <cf9b1ee00905301141t1945c053x43ce915b7085326e@mail.gmail.com> <20090602095228.8ff3654c.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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USB root partition for booting off UFS is something I have considered. I have looked around and it seems that all the "install FreeBSD onto USB stick" guides seem to involve a lot of manual work from a fixit environment= , does sysinstall not recognise USB drives as a valid disk device to parition/label/install FreeBSD on? If I do go with an USB boot/root, what things I should absolutely keep on it and which are "safe" to move to a ZFS pool? The idea is that in case my ZFS configuration goes bonkers for some reason, I still have a fully workable singleuser configuration to boot from for recovery. I haven't really used USB flash for many years, but I remember when they first started appearing on the shelves, they got well known for their horrible reliability (stick would die within a year of use, etc). Have they improved to the point of being good enough to host a root partition on, without having to setup some crazy GEOM mirror setup using 2 of them? - Dan Naumov 2009/6/2 Gerrit K=FChn <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> > On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:41:36 +0300 Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrot= e > about ZFS NAS configuration question: > > DN> So, this leaves me with 1 SATA port used for a FreeBSD disk and 4 SAT= A > DN> ports available for tinketing with ZFS. > > Do you have a USB port available to boot from? A conventional USB stick (= I > use 4 GB or 8GB these days, but smaller ones would certainly also do) is > enough to hold the base system on UFS, and you can give the whole of your > disks to ZFS without having to bother with booting from them. > > > cu > Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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