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 another install and failing.
> I'm guessing that you remember to set the zfs mountpoint as "legacy" and > the added it to /etc/vfstab? 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 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rpool/ROOT/openindiana 134G 2.1G 132G 2% / swap 8.5G 1008K 8.5G 1% /etc/svc/volatile /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1 134G 2.1G 132G 2% /lib/libc.so.1 rpool/ROOT/openindiana/var 132G 400M 132G 1% /var swap 8.5G 8.0K 8.5G 1% /tmp swap 8.5G 40K 8.5G 1% /var/run rpool/home 132G 36M 132G 1% /home rpool 132G 46K 132G 1% /rpool rpool/usr 132G 32K 132G 1% /rpool/usr rpool/usr/local 132G 31K 132G 1% /rpool/usr/local chris@Jubal:~$ zfs get mountpoint rpool/ROOT/openindiana/var NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/ROOT/openindiana/var mountpoint /var local I'm wondering if the fact that I made it under ROOT/openindiana is why it "just works". (This is NOT a production system, just a test install I made and left running to see how stable it would be on this hardware). Thanks to both of you, I'll run a few more tests. I am guessing the problem with the way I did it is that it will still make different var volumes (paritions ? zfs's ?) for each BE ? What is the dounside of using legacy mounts and /etc/vfstab ? I'm thinking now about just leaving /usr and only separating /var (and usr/local) to their own filesystems. My reasons for /var is simply to be able to separate out the space consumed by log files and everything else. In fact, I've thought about making var/spool it's own file system for a long time for similar reasons: Large mail run doesn't stop logging, and vice-versa. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss