Converting sysinstalled FreeBSD into ZFS-only server.

[Andriy Bakay]

On 10-Aug-10, at 7:03 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:22:42 -0400, Andriy Bakay said:
>>
>> 3. Could you be more verbose about your ZFS layout, what major  
>> advantages
>> it provide against for example the following:
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot. I found it very  
>> interesting
>> but I need more info.
>
> Are you referring to mounting "/" from the inner dataset called  
> system/root
> (rather that using the root dataset like in GPTZFSBoot)?
>
> I think an inner dataset is better for "/" because it gives you more
> flexibility later.  In particular, you can do zfs destroy on it  
> (which is
> impossible on the root dataset).  You can also have alternate roots  
> for
> different OS versions.

Good point about "/", thanks.

But what about this one:

# zfs create -o canmount=off system/usr
# zfs create -o canmount=off system/var

Maybe Pawel could comment out.

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