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When cleanvar_enable is asserted (it appears to be, by default), what exactly is deleted in /var? Are only temporary files (e.g., not /var/log nor /var/www) deleted?

So no authentication at all is useful for swap? What about /tmp?

It's not just performance that I'm after, but also the other features (self-healing, snapshots, dedup, etc.) There is enough space on / to temporarily accommodate the other partitions, so it should be feasible to do... Otherwise, I'll just convert /usr/home.

For some reason the swap partition halved in size after enabling geli AES-256 and HMAC/SHA256: ``geli list'' displays the provider as 2.5G and the consumer as 5G. Is this due to SHA overhead? I have the following configuration in rc.conf: geli_swap_flags="-a HMAC/SHA256 -l 256

I want to convert my existing partitions to ZFS, excluding /, swap, and /tmp: /dev/mirror/gm0s1a / /dev/mirror/gm0s1d /usr /dev/mirror/gm0s1e /var /dev/mirror/gm0s1f /tmp /dev/mirror/gm0s1g /usr/home What is the optimal procedure for such an operation, on a live system (preferably)? I...

I am unsure how to best implement filesystem encryption in a server, since the passphrase must be supplied at boot (I do not have a console server nor would I be available all the time) and obviously an adversary has much more efficacious methods of recovering data from a running server. Any...

Would the BIOS even recognize a Protected MBR (pmbr) and gptzfsboot loader?

Yes, I have invoked that command per instructions: Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad0 Fixit# gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/pmbr -p /mnt2/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad4

One thing I noticed was that "-b 34" was used for freebsd-boot in the directions...maybe this is the issue.

I have been trying to install using 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick to a system according to these directions: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror The only ways I have deviated from the instructions are: 1. dd'ing the first 1M with /dev/zero for each HDD (otherwise gpart will...

I am currently setting up a server which will have software RAID-1 (mirroring) over a 250GB SATA and ATAPI HDD. Problem is, I cannot find any suitable documentation on how to configure RAID during the installation process. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I am planning on setting up a home server, one of its functions being file storage for three mobile laptops. I previously used Samba, but this became an issue when using a laptop in an area lacking Internet connectivity - I definitely need a local copy to be available (Unison/rsync), but when a...

I am planning on setting up a small FreeBSD server at home, which will generally have minimal usage (for now ntp, dns, dhcp, http, samba, and ssh for rsync), with a software RAID-1 and Ethernet link aggregation. I don't explicitly need virtualization, but I am thinking of it for flexibility. Any...