On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 22:59 -0500, Kurt Lidl wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:03:09PM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > I'm restoring some of the sparc64 machines for freebsd.org and had a > > question with regards to what to do about the / > > > > Since it wasn't obvious how to setup zfs root things I setup something > > that looks like this: > > > > => 0 71087625 da0 VTOC8 (33G) > > 0 385560 1 freebsd-ufs (188M) > > 385560 70702065 2 freebsd-zfs (33G) > > > > => 0 71087625 da1 VTOC8 (33G) > > 0 385560 1 freebsd-ufs (188M) > > 385560 70702065 2 freebsd-zfs (33G) > > > > > > Where everything *except* /boot is in the mirrored zpool. > > > > I can reinstall the system trivially, and am looking for suggestions. > > I wrote up a script to do the heavy lifting for installing > a completely zfs system on a sparc64 machine. > > http://www.pix.net/ftp/pub/freebsd/sparc_zfs_setup.txt > > The 12GB space for zfs is appropriate for a 18Gb disk, and allows > the remainder of the disk space to accommodate a 4Gb-ish swap space, > for crash dumps. The swap is placed at the end of the disk, since > that's the slowest part to access. > > -Kurt >
Ah, I see I'm completely overthinking it.
From your script:
gpart bootcode -p /boot/zfsboot ${disk}
dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/${disk}a bs=512 oseek1024
conv=notrunc,sync
That's what I was missing hence my silly layout.
Sean
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