ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ?

[Ulf Lilleengen]

On fre, feb 29, 2008 at 03:04:58pm -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I recently updated my existing 6.x systems to 7.0.  Excited to see ZFS 
> support, after looking through the current documentation, it doesn't appear 
> we can use ZFS as the / filesystem, or am I mistaken (or is that even 
> advisable).   The sysinstall doesn't seem to provide you with the option 
> for ZFS on the newly created partitions.  So I could have / as UFS2 and 
> /usr (et al) as ZFS.
> 
> Could someone clarify?  Perhaps I missed something in the documentation.
> 
Hi,

You can use ZFS for the root filesystem, but you cannot boot from it yet.
Guides for how to set up ZFS and what's supported can be found here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS

Sysinstall doesn't support ZFS yet, so you'll have to do some tricks after
install to get ZFS up and running. Remember, the support is experimental. But
I definately recommend to give it a try :)

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen