On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote:
>> Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should
>> have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and
>> dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental.
>> When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect
>> ZFS support i
> Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should
> have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and
> dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental.
> When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect
> ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote:
>> From: "Tim Judd"
>> I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it
>> ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM
>> should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror.
>
> So, you like the idea of including RAID3 and mirror becau
Jason Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS
>> boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some
>> how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of wa
I'm responding to two people's comments here in one response. :)
> From: "Brian A. Seklecki"
> I make the suggestions because you're asking about an
> advanced topic, so I gave you an honest answer.
Honest answers are appreciated. :) I'm not saying that the way you suggested
was invalid, jus
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be
> built into the installer.
With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your
own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote:
>> No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even
>> have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use
>> sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you
>> need to bootstrap a system.
>
> That's a silly answer. The way to get more peop
> No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even
> have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use
> sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you
> need to bootstrap a system.
That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make
the install
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support
> ZFS boot partitions in the installer.
No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8)
creation support in there.
Best not to use sysi
> I wouldn't recommend using zfs at all right now, unless you want
> random crashes and lots of missing data.. ESPECIALLY in 8.0,1,2
> versions.
I'm using 7.2 at the moment with a standard UFS2 boot partition and a 500GB ZFS
pool. My ZFS pool actually seems pretty stable. I did a "make -j 16
b
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS
> boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some
> how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the
> impression I got
My zfs only system works fine but it based on 8-beta2 built around 16 May(
will be rebuilding soon)
The main thing to remember to do it make sure your have
zfs_loader_support="yes" in your src of make.conf
I based my install on this howto
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot#installFreeB
Tim Gustafson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot
> partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to
> documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got
> is that support for ZFS parti
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot
partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to
documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got is
that support for ZFS partitions is coming to the installer
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