ZFS root File System

[Clifton Royston]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:21:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     My experience with one of our people trying to do the same thing 
>     w/ HAMMER... we got it working, but it is not necessarily cleaner.
> 
>     I'd rather just boot from a small UFS /boot partition on 'a' (256M
>     or 512M), followed by swap on 'b', followed by the big-ass root
>     partition on 'd' using your favorite filesystem.

For those who want resilience, on FreeBSD you could also make that boot
partition mirrored across drives with gmirror.  

  -- Clifton

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