Want to reinstall, preserving existing configuration

[Fabian Keil]

David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:

> This is about my old notebook. It has 3GB of memory, which is pretty  
> marginal for ZFS. Adding more memory is not an option (I wish it were,  
> but ASUS solders the memory onto the board with these systems).

ZFS can be patched to work reasonably well with a lot less than 3 GB of RAM:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594

> But there are a couple problems which are inclining me to reinstall.  
> First, the system is slow and I think ZFS isn't helping me. Second, I  
> can't for the life of me figure out how to get through a portion of  
> the make world step where the newly rebuilt base system is supposed to  
> be installed in single-user mode--I've been having to boot all the way  
> and do that installation on a fully live system (yes, that's worked).  
> ZFS isn't helping me here either (I don't have this problem on UFS  
> systems).

It's not obvious to me why you blame ZFS for the installworld issue
and it seems unlikely to me that switching to UFS is the only way to
solve it.

Fabian
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