Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-12 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-09-11 13:55, Ben Taylor wrote: Testing is a separate and much more important point, I think: if you do things the way nobody else does them, intentionally or otherwise, then you're a test pilot. Much luck, and make sure you've repacked your parachute recently. Well, at the time, I use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-11 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James Carlson wrote: > On 09/10/13 12:31, Ben Taylor wrote: > > I really can't see the wisdom of splitting out /usr from / on a ZFS file > > system. I had an open bug with Sun in 2009 regarding the separate /var > > partition, and we went months arguing with suppo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-10 Thread Ben Taylor
I really can't see the wisdom of splitting out /usr from / on a ZFS file system. I had an open bug with Sun in 2009 regarding the separate /var partition, and we went months arguing with support regarding whether or not that was a supported configuration. The main issue was that single user and f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-10 Thread James Carlson
On 09/10/13 12:31, Ben Taylor wrote: > I really can't see the wisdom of splitting out /usr from / on a ZFS file > system. I had an open bug with Sun in 2009 regarding the separate /var > partition, and we went months arguing with support regarding whether or not > that was a supported configuratio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-09-05 01:33, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: As far as I remember I split if off by hand myself, after installing. The thing is, it doesn't work on the new mahcine I'm trying that on. However, you may have just convinced me NOT to. I have to admit, I'm essentially comming from Solaris 8 (

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Jim Klimov wrote: > > here is the output of df: > > > > chris@Jubal:~$ df -h > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > rpool/ROOT/openindiana > >134G 2.1G 132G 2% / > > rpool/ROOT/openindiana/var > >132G

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-09-04 21:24, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: No, I did not. However the machine that IS running doesn't have it set to legacy either. (And checking, it's just /var -- what I thought was /usr is an artifact of how I created /usr/local here is the output of df: chris@Jubal:~$ df -h Filesys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Richard Jones wrote: > > I know this is possible, because I have an oi 151a6 machine running > > with /var and /usr as saparate filesystems on the zfs rpool. However I > > did it I can't remember and can't find whatever instructions I used, > > because I'm trying again on anoth

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-09-04 10:12, Richard Jones wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:45:18PM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: This is somewhat embarassing. I know this is possible, because I have an oi 151a6 machine running with /var and /usr as saparate filesystems on the zfs rpool. However I did it I ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-04 Thread Richard Jones
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:45:18PM -0400, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > This is somewhat embarassing. > > I know this is possible, because I have an oi 151a6 machine running > with /var and /usr as saparate filesystems on the zfs rpool. However I > did it I can't remember and can't find whateve

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
This is somewhat embarassing. I know this is possible, because I have an oi 151a6 machine running with /var and /usr as saparate filesystems on the zfs rpool. However I did it I can't remember and can't find whatever instructions I used, because I'm trying again on another install and failing.