[SOLVED]Re: How to create ZFS on Root using MBR slices?

[Scot Hetzel]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Norikatsu Shigemura<nork at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Scot.
>
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:47:21 -0500
> Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I created a page on the FreeBSD wiki with these instructions.
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRootWithZFSboot
>
>        I have two requests.
>
>        1. Use fstab instead of vfs.root.mountfrom.
>           loader with LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT can read /etc/fstab,
>           so we should use fstab like UFS.
>
> - - - - - - - - - -
> # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options Dump    Pass#
> zroot           /               zfs             rw,noatime      0       0
> - - - - - - - - - -
>
I added a Alternate configuration section, and added an example /etc/fstab

>        2. all compression=on is not usable.
>           I had used all zfs with compression=on.  In thus environment,
>           toooo latency, I got frustration.  We should use compression=on
>           on some fs.
>
I added a warning about latency caused by enabling compression to step 7.

Scot