Hello!
I am going to do a complete wipe of my laptop, install Windows 7, shrink it as much as possible, and install FreeBSD 8.0 again (I don't have it installed now, but I did for a little while before). I plan to use ZFS and all of its juicy goodness since I've heard so much about it, but all the documentation seems to suggest I need more than one hard drive. I just have one laptop with one 160GB hard drive. The Windows slice will probably be 40GB or less (if possible), and the rest will be devoted to FreeBSD. Should my FreeBSD slice take up the rest of the free space on the disk, or will I have to leave a significant amount of unused space for ZFS? Will it even work to have ZFS on one sliced up hard drive, and is it even worth having on a laptop with such a small hard drive?
Since FreeBSD cannot yet boot from ZFS partitions (or so I've read), which partitions are the most common to make into ZFS ones? I was thinking of just making /usr and /var ZFS, but is that a bad idea, or am I missing an opportunity to make other parts of my system ZFS?
Thank you,
Agi93
I am going to do a complete wipe of my laptop, install Windows 7, shrink it as much as possible, and install FreeBSD 8.0 again (I don't have it installed now, but I did for a little while before). I plan to use ZFS and all of its juicy goodness since I've heard so much about it, but all the documentation seems to suggest I need more than one hard drive. I just have one laptop with one 160GB hard drive. The Windows slice will probably be 40GB or less (if possible), and the rest will be devoted to FreeBSD. Should my FreeBSD slice take up the rest of the free space on the disk, or will I have to leave a significant amount of unused space for ZFS? Will it even work to have ZFS on one sliced up hard drive, and is it even worth having on a laptop with such a small hard drive?
Since FreeBSD cannot yet boot from ZFS partitions (or so I've read), which partitions are the most common to make into ZFS ones? I was thinking of just making /usr and /var ZFS, but is that a bad idea, or am I missing an opportunity to make other parts of my system ZFS?
Thank you,
Agi93