ZFS NAS configuration question

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 31/05/2009, at 4:41 AM, Dan Naumov wrote:

> To top that
> off, even when/if you do it right, not your entire disk goes to ZFS
> anyway, because you still do need a swap and a /boot to be non-ZFS, so
> you will have to install ZFS onto a slice and not the entire disk and
> even SUN discourages to do that.

ZFS on root is still pretty new to FreeBSD, and until it gets ironed  
out and all the sysinstall tools support it nicely, it isn't hard to  
use a small UFS slice to get things going during boot. And there is  
nothing wrong with putting ZFS onto a slice rather than the entire  
disk: that is a very common approach.

http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs

Ari Maniatis



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