USB root partition for booting off UFS is something I have considered. I have looked around and it seems that all the "install FreeBSD onto USB stick" guides seem to involve a lot of manual work from a fixit environment, does sysinstall not recognise USB drives as a valid disk device to parition/label/install FreeBSD on? If I do go with an USB boot/root, what things I should absolutely keep on it and which are "safe" to move to a ZFS pool? The idea is that in case my ZFS configuration goes bonkers for some reason, I still have a fully workable singleuser configuration to boot from for recovery.
I haven't really used USB flash for many years, but I remember when they first started appearing on the shelves, they got well known for their horrible reliability (stick would die within a year of use, etc). Have they improved to the point of being good enough to host a root partition on, without having to setup some crazy GEOM mirror setup using 2 of them? - Dan Naumov 2009/6/2 Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> > On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:41:36 +0300 Dan Naumov <[email protected]> wrote > about ZFS NAS configuration question: > > DN> So, this leaves me with 1 SATA port used for a FreeBSD disk and 4 SATA > DN> ports available for tinketing with ZFS. > > Do you have a USB port available to boot from? A conventional USB stick (I > use 4 GB or 8GB these days, but smaller ones would certainly also do) is > enough to hold the base system on UFS, and you can give the whole of your > disks to ZFS without having to bother with booting from them. > > > cu > Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
