Greetings, I created the following guide when I was trying out ZFS in VirtualBox on my windows machine. I created 5 hard drives: 1 to represent a flash drive to boot off of, 4 to represent the large hard drives I would be using in raid. It seemed to work to get a running system, but wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything stupid or missing a good step.
FreeBSD 8.0 with ZFS *Setup Use a 2gig Flash device. 1 gig is enough space though. 512M will be tight. Collect the 4 other SATA drives. *Start FreeBSD normal install. Select the flash device as the device to install to. Use the entire device Install the bootMgr Create a single slice taking up the entire device, mount to / Select distribution minimal Run install Normal post install answers Reboot *Activate ZFS (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html) Follow instructions for RaidZ Be sure to add the instructions for daily raid mails *Create mount points in pool home local obj ports src var share tmp *One at a time, copy existing data from / to new mount points. Instructions are in the link above *Reboot (make sure nothing is broken) *Swap zfs create -V 4g storage/swap geli onetime -s 4096 /dev/zvol/storage/swap (encryption, might not be needed) swapon /dev/zvol/storage/swap.eli *pkg_add -r bash *Add users *Normal setup at this point. </copy> My goal is to not burn out the flash drive with a bunch of writes, so it should primarily be read only, with the occasional edit to a config file or installworld. I tried putting /etc in a ZFS pool to take advantage of snapshots and such, but the machine couldn't find the boot drive as that information is stored in /etc and ZFS is not loaded at that point. Am I doing something stupid that may burn out the flash drive or cause the system to be rather slow? Thanks, Derrick _______________________________________________ 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"
