bhyve zfs resizing

[Alan Somers]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
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> Thanks for the example, I've saved it.
>
> Ok just one other question, which I might have found the answer to, or
> might not. I'm new to this virtualising on zfs even though ive used zfs
> for years. It's basically:
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> I made a zvol, installed 12-R into it,. Where the disks option came up I
> chose the auto defaults for *ZFS* in the guest. I also selected
> encryption for both the virtual disk and swap. I think perhaps I
> shouldn't have done all this together in the same vm because with apache
> running in it, httpd got wedged (and then everything got wedged. sync
> wouldn't return). I think the top zfs layer and the encryption layer and
> the zfs underneath got too busy. Happily the server still responded to a
> shutdown -r and came back up. It's scrubbing the zpool to be on the safe
> side.
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> Am I correct? In that I should have used UFS in the guest rather than
> zfs? Or was it the encryption?
>
> thanks,
> --
> J.

Running ZFS inside of a ZFS-backed guest will be slower than using
UFS, but it should work just fine.  I doubt that it was the cause of
your problem.
-Alan