which filesytems zfs needs to function

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Edward M <eam1edward at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was running FreeBSD 9.0 using ZFS with the following setup on one
> harddrive:
> *(5) Create appropriate filesystems (feel free to improvise!).*
>
> zfs create zroot/usr
> zfs create zroot/usr/home
> zfs create zroot/var
> zfs create-o  compression=on-o  exec=on-o  setuid=off zroot/tmp
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  setuid=off zroot/usr/ports
> zfs create-o  compression=off-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off
> zroot/usr/ports/distfiles
> zfs create-o  compression=off-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off
> zroot/usr/ports/packages
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/usr/src
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/crash
> zfs create-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/db
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  exec=on-o  setuid=off zroot/var/db/pkg
> zfs create-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/empty
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/log
> zfs create-o  compression=gzip  -o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/mail
> zfs create-o  exec=off-o  setuid=off zroot/var/run
> zfs create-o  compression=lzjb-o  exec=on-o  setuid=off zroot/var/tmp
>

The filesystems are mostly arbitrary.  You really only need the rootfs with
appropriate directories underneath.  The list provided is simply a concise
idealized layout.

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Adam Vande More