Defaults in 10.0 ZFS through bsdinstall

[Teske, Devin]

Let's try this again (darn GPG and it's inline quoting bug on Mac)

On Nov 14, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Allan Jude wrote:

> On 2013-11-14 9:34, Reid, Marcus wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed a couple of things with the ZFS defaults that result from
>> using the new installer in 10.0-BETA3.
>> 
>> One, atime is turned off everywhere by default.  There was a thread on
>> this list on June 8 with a subject of 'Changing the default for ZFS
>> atime to off?', and from what I can tell the idea of turning off atime
>> by default was not a popular one.
>> 
>> Two, and probably less controversial, is that fletcher4 is specified
>> exlicitly on the root pool, even though it is default (wouldn't you just
>> want to go with the default, in case it changes?)
>> 
>> Marcus
> 
> I have never heard a good argument for having atime on. The performance
> penalty on ZFS is quite large, and it also makes your snapshots grow
> constant. If you have a use for it, you can turn it on I guess. This
> would be solved by having the dataset editor we're planning for 10.1
> 

Seems easy enough to turn on once installed. And like Allan says, the
editor for 10.1 would allow changing of the default.

I'll add that if scripting it, you can (in current state for 10.0) change the
dataset options at-will.


> The fletcher4 thing is a leftover, from older versions of ZFS where the
> default was fletcher2, I suppose we can remove it

Let me put something together.
-- 
Devin

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