Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: > Can't say about /var/log, but I have a system here with /var on zfs. > > My assumption was that, not just /var/log, but essentially all of /var is > supposed to be "runtime cruft", and so can be treated equally. > Not really. Please see the man page for filesystem

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Can't say about /var/log, but I have a system here with /var on zfs. My assumption was that, not just /var/log, but essentially all of /var is supposed to be "runtime cruft", and so can be treated equally. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
Dan McDonald wrote: > I created a filesystem dedicated to /var/log so I could keep compression on > the logs. Unfortunately, this caused problems at boot time because my log > ZFS dataset couldn't be mounted because /var/log already contained bits. > Some of that, to be fair, could be fixed by

Re: [zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Kyle McDonald
Dan McDonald wrote: > I created a filesystem dedicated to /var/log so I could keep compression on > the logs. Unfortunately, this caused problems at boot time because my log > ZFS dataset couldn't be mounted because /var/log already contained bits. > Some of that, to be fair, could be fixed by

[zfs-discuss] /var/log as a single zfs filesystem --> problems at boot

2008-07-02 Thread Dan McDonald
I created a filesystem dedicated to /var/log so I could keep compression on the logs. Unfortunately, this caused problems at boot time because my log ZFS dataset couldn't be mounted because /var/log already contained bits. Some of that, to be fair, could be fixed by having some SMF services ex