Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Although ZFS is probably more mature than you are making it sound here, it is true that gmirror is becoming very reliable and servicable. ever used gmirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:04:38PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/script > > to create mirror i

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable >> disk. I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or >> gvinum. Nothing beats a hardware raid though. >> > IMHO "ha

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable disk. I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or gvinum. Nothing beats a hardware raid though. IMHO "hardware" RAID beats nothing. it's mostly crap. gmirror/gstripe/gconcat works well and always

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/script > to create mirror is > there such a a tool for ZFS to use on Fbsd 7.1? > > Regards. > Are y

Re: zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? Yes. But you need a /boot partition so the bootloader can find the kernel. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot and http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs

zfs root partition boot?

2009-02-02 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ script to create mirror is there such a a tool for ZFS to use on Fbsd 7.1? Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail