On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:42:59 -0500 Janos Dohanics <w...@3dresearch.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, > > May be I should have searched more for answers, but after installing > FreeBSD 9 with gmirror, I am wondering if the experts here have some > recommendations for "best practices". > > 1. The Guided partitioning doesn't suggest any more to > create /var, /tmp, /usr, etc. file systems. Is it really the > recommendation to go with just / ? This is a bad recommendation I think, but you can accept guidance and the adjust to your needs. > > 2. Is there a way to use the old sysinstall to install FreeBSD 9? Yes, harder to use, or no the new installer should have some more sane defaults > > 3. It seems that setting up gmirror is more involved with GPT > (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071); now I have a mirror > for each of the filesystems /, /var, /tmp, etc. Is it OK to use > gmirror in this way at all? > > 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize > disks - correct? > > 3. Assuming one has enough RAM, is zfs mirror or raidz recommended > over gmirror? gmirror, still I think > > Prior to FreeBSD 9, I used to take the the sysinstall defaults with > some overrides as I thought appropriate and proceeded to set up > gmirror - it was simple and not a lot of work, and a good way to make > use of older systems... I think the new installer is quite good, but needs some shaving around the rough edges Cheers Disclaimer: http://www.ose.nl/email _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
