[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

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

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 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
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 for