From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 17:27:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 980AB3EF for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 17:27:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk) Received: from smtp.demon.co.uk (mdfmta010.mxout.tch.inty.net [91.221.169.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14FC1861 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 17:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sliderule.demon.co.uk) Received: from smtp.demon.co.uk (unknown [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta010.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C222401185 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 18:20:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta004.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta004.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C76AC40F4 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 18:20:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta004.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta004.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FB4AC40EF for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 18:20:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.254.7] (unknown [80.177.21.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta004.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 18:20:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5565FCE8.9080700@sliderule.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:20:40 +0100 From: Steve Burton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1 + ZFS References: <5563939F.2070303@columbus.rr.com>, <86oal8gu30.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>, <5563A6E0.4010402@columbus.rr.com> <86382kgoi8.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>, <20150526030812.8e749982.freebsd@edvax.de>, <20150526034748.GA1674@WorkBox.Home>, <5564E1CE.2040700@columbus.rr.com> <5564E6F5.1090306@radel.com>, <5564EF07.2080603@columbus.rr.com> <20150527000713.GA3257@WorkBox.Home>, In-Reply-To: X-MDF-HostID: 17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 17:27:27 -0000 On 27/05/2015 13:26, Ricky G wrote: > >>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-freebsd-10-1-amd64-uefi-boot-with-encrypted-zfs-root-using-geli.51393/ > This guide is good and will get you most of the way there. There are a few things missing however, zpool set bootfs needs to be set. Also if you decide on encryption you may need to set vfs.root.mountfrom in loader.conf and add zpool import zboot to your rc.local because it wont automatically import the boot pool. >> Erasing the entire contents is NOT an option. There are going to be two> other operations systems installed on the boxen.> And only works on whole disks.> > I want an ZFS Raid-Z2 setup.> > ...>> There must be a way to install directly to ZFS....Is it really that hard? > To me, it sounds like you dont understand how ZFS works and you should do some research. If you plan on doing a raid-z2 I assume you plan to use at least 3 disks. You want to keep your old partitions so using zfs on that disk doesn't seem ideal. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > This is a good point, I don't understand ZFS. Is there a good book (O'Reilly?) on it? Up to FreeBSD being released I'd considered ZFS as 'under development" and suddenly, with V10.0, there is was! I really need to know more that is both general and FreeBSD specific on this subject. Recommendations, anyone? (I have the Handbook, of course) Steve.