Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Miroslav Lachman
tech-lists wrote on 2019/03/19 01:23: Am I correct? In that I should have used UFS in the guest rather than zfs? Or was it the encryption? As Alan already wrote - you can use ZFS inside of the guest but I would never choose ZFS in zvol backed guest. I prefere UFS. It is faster and does not

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:24 PM tech-lists wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > [...] > > Thanks for the example, I've saved it. > > Ok just one other question, which I might have found the answer to, or > might not. I'm new to this virtualising on zfs

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread tech-lists
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: [...] Thanks for the example, I've saved it. Ok just one other question, which I might have found the answer to, or might not. I'm new to this virtualising on zfs even though ive used zfs for years. It's basically: I made a

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Miroslav Lachman
tech-lists wrote on 2019/03/18 16:25: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:08:31AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: Do you mean using a zvol as the backing store for a VM?  If so, then: 1) Yes.  You can just do "zfs set volsize" on the host. 2) In theory no, but the guest may need to be rebooted to notice the

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread tech-lists
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 09:08:31AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: Do you mean using a zvol as the backing store for a VM? If so, then: 1) Yes. You can just do "zfs set volsize" on the host. 2) In theory no, but the guest may need to be rebooted to notice the change. And I'm not sure if the

Re: bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread Alan Somers
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:05 AM tech-lists wrote: > > Hi, > > Apart from the performance benefit as per the section for bhyve in the > handbook, can the size of the zfs-backed guest: > > 1. be resized from the host? > 2. does the guest need to be inactive? > 3. can linux guests (or even windows

bhyve zfs resizing

2019-03-18 Thread tech-lists
Hi, Apart from the performance benefit as per the section for bhyve in the handbook, can the size of the zfs-backed guest: 1. be resized from the host? 2. does the guest need to be inactive? 3. can linux guests (or even windows ones) be resized as well? thanks, -- J. signature.asc