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Date:      Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:01:06 -0600
From:      Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ?
Message-ID:  <47C88EB2.5080108@barryp.org>
In-Reply-To: <47C88085.60300@forrie.com>
References:  <47C8656A.6080808@forrie.com>	<20080229214106.GA1249@carrot.studby.ntnu.no>	<20080229215535.GA5670@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <47C88085.60300@forrie.com>

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Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Thank you for the replies. It seems that / and/or at least /boot should 
> remain UFS/UFS2 and the rest of the system ZFS, if so desired.
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to convert a filesystem from UFS/2 to ZFS ;-) 
> Probably not without another disk nearby to mirror and copy back the 
> content.

No conversion - I ended up installing on UFS on one disk, creating a ZFS 
pool on a second disk, and then using sysutils/cpdup from ports to clone 
   the install onto one or more ZFS filesystems.

	Barry



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