On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM tech-lists <tech-li...@zyxst.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > [...] > > 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: > > 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
