FYI I switched all my nvmm virtual machines to use zvols under -current, seems to be working rather well. I haven't yer tried snapshotting them, I'll do that later, but so far haven't had any problems, including performancewise. Previously they used either gpt partitions or disk images.
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 06:28, Alistair Crooks <a...@pkgsrc.org> wrote: > > Working with a VM. Added 1 CPU and 3GB memory to the instance, 4 GB RAM total > > Added a 50GB disk, presents as wd2 > > Commands (edited to show kinda relevant ones) I also have a full backup of my > home dir in case I fat fingered anything > > 9986 19:24 dmesg > 9987 19:24 sudo zpool create z /dev/wd2d > 9989 19:25 sudo zfs create z/home > 9990 19:30 sudo zfs set compression=lz4 z/home > 9991 19:30 sudo zfs set atime=off z/home > 9992 19:30 sudo zpool get all z > 9993 19:31 sudo zfs get all z/home > 9994 19:31 df > 9995 19:31 du -h ~agc/ > 9996 19:32 cd /home > 9998 19:32 sudo pax -rwpe . /z/home/ > 9999 19:33 df > 10000 19:35 cd / > 10004 19:36 sudo rm -rf /home > 10007 19:37 sudo zfs snapshot z/home@20190802 > 10009 19:38 sudo zfs list > 10011 19:38 ls -al /z/home > 10012 19:38 ls -al /z > 10013 19:39 sudo zfs set mountpoint=/home z/home > > This is all on 9.99.something, BTW, but near enough to 9.0_BETA > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 10:55, Ron Georgia <netve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then symlink >> the /home -> /tank/home? >> >> >> >> From: Alistair Crooks <a...@pkgsrc.org> >> Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM >> To: Ronald Georgia <netve...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Marc Baudoin <baba...@babafou.eu.org>, NetBSD Users !!!! >> <netbsd-users@netbsd.org> >> Subject: Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:52, Ronald Georgia <netve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Same here. I have two 9BETA machines using zfs. Both have a mirrored pool of >> two disks. So far things seem to be working. This weekend I will be testing >> snapshots and send/receive. >> >> >> >> BTW, nice job with zfs. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:47 AM Marc Baudoin <baba...@babafou.eu.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA. I've tried it and it seems >> usable (I couldn't make it work in 8.0 so it's a real progress). >> Now I'd like to know what's its state in 9.0_BETA (still >> experimental, quite stable, production ready --- might be too >> early) and what's the goal for the future? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> I have no idea of official status, but I've moved the home directory on my >> main development machine to zfs, and am extremely happy so far with the >> results - snapshots and compression ftw >> >> >> >> Having said that, I did have issues copying some larger files from ffs to >> zfs until I added more memory. >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> Alistair -- ----