Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:15:03 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: Mailinglists FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing to RAIDZ1 Message-ID: <4f0d94f4-4ae0-10ae-8ec5-053e9581e509@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <54688c2ac53bef20348c6cf4e91c6c1d@dweimer.net> References: <0b8556f0-7d92-a4c9-c9e4-62e16e82b936@columbus.rr.com> <54688c2ac53bef20348c6cf4e91c6c1d@dweimer.net>
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On 11/12/16 12:36, Dean E. Weimer wrote: > On 2016-11-12 10:52 am, Baho Utot wrote: >> I want to reinstall my desktop system using a raidz-1 filesystem using >> the current installation image for usb drive. Reading the handbook I >> find that bsdinstall will not do the installation I want. I am using >> 4 1TB drives and I want to partition to 800GB and install the raidz >> there. Can I create a raidz storage pool manually and then use >> bsdinstall or will I have to manually install freebsd not using >> bsdinstall? >> >> How do I do this? >> > > I have a set of instructions I wrote for a manual install on ZFS root > with a mirror, these can easily be modified to use a raidz partition > instead. My home server that is hosting this website is actually > running a raidz on 4 1TB drives. The instructions below setup a > gmirror for swap in addition to the zfs mirror, when I did the raidz > setup I used two separate gmirror swap partitions so that I have swap > spread out over all 4 disks and it will still survive a disk failure. > Granted I don't think my server has actually ever needed to use the > swap space so I can't be sure it wont grind to a crawl if it hits it. > > Fair warning I haven't actually read through these in a while, I wrote > them back in 9.x days, I did modify them when it was no longer > necessary to specify the boot data set in the loader.conf. I basically > just install from memory, when needed. > > http://www.dweimer.net/?Content=03~help_files&Page=01~installing_FreeBSD_on_ZFS > > I'll have a look at them thank you
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