zfs newbie

[Arthur Chance]

On 07/09/2021 23:17, Doug Denault wrote:
> 
> Following the default 12.2 zfs install I got one pool (zroot) and a
> dataset for each of the traditional mount points. So zfs list shows:
> 
> NAME                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> zroot                279G  6.75T    88K  /zroot
> zroot/ROOT          1.74G  6.75T    88K  none
> zroot/ROOT/default  1.74G  6.75T  1.74G  /
> zroot/tmp            176K  6.75T   176K  /tmp
> zroot/usr            277G  6.75T    88K  /usr
> zroot/usr/home       276G  6.75T   276G  /usr/home
> zroot/usr/ports       88K  6.75T    88K  /usr/ports
> zroot/usr/src        670M  6.75T   670M  /usr/src
> zroot/var           47.5M  6.75T    88K  /var
> zroot/var/audit       88K  6.75T    88K  /var/audit
> zroot/var/crash       88K  6.75T    88K  /var/crash
> zroot/var/log        820K  6.75T   820K  /var/log
> zroot/var/mail      46.3M  6.75T  46.3M  /var/mail
> zroot/var/tmp         88K  6.75T    88K  /var/tmp
> 
> I had consultant configure another server for us. He set up the disk
> array with one dataset. so zfs list on this system give:
> 
> NAME    USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> zroot  2.65G  13.2T  2.62G  legacy
> 
> From a sysadmin view I rather like the multiple datasets. Are there
> advantages to one over the other?

Note the zroot/ROOT/default tree. This lets you use boot environments.
If you're not familiar with them take a look at bectl(8) and
https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments

[bectl is a base system command very similar to the earlier beadm port
that you may see referenced in old documentation.]

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