Installing a system onto ZFS

From: Aristedes Maniatis <ari_at_ish.com.au>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:14:40 +1000
Yesterday I tried to install (using the August 2007 snapshot iso) a  
new FreeBSD system using ZFS. This is what I did:

* boot from CD
* type "load ZFS" on the boot loader prompt (could this be made  
default for FreeBSD 7 release?)
* drop into the live CD shell and use fdisk, disklabel and zfs to  
create the appropriate partitions (/boot which is UFS2 and /usr /tmp / 
var / which are ZFS). ZFS volumes are created inside ad4s1d.

A problem is then that the installer tries to mount the partitions  
and presumably knows nothing about the ZFS partitions I mounted  
within the live CD shell. Is there a way to do this, or am I  
expecting too much of the installer tool at this early stage of ZFS  
in FreeBSD?

It appears that the only alternative is to install a full system onto  
UFS2 partitions, install a second disk with ZFS volumes, copy across  
the data and set up the boot loader on the second drive, then discard  
the first drive. Is that what others are doing?

Cheers
Ari Maniatis


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