From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B49B1381F3 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 04:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 278AFE0C3E; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 04:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f52.google.com (mail-qa0-f52.google.com [209.85.216.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16BA0E0B8C for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 04:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id k4so3324106qaq.18 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:49:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=zqRa6z5LoGAGT6qCJYEeBMnVpSQXIZ+xmq60cqM9niQ=; b=Cfe4OGUyqrbdMCqc58k5mk3lIfoRItrB3Gb6/FiRVQF6gWML/9/YitqlLpVX31HivX 9gWG1YSRpUbCi2GnDpmhPhnvZT0E1Sj3Dz2htOZ2nMqMxmtcFBenuosDfR3UDfHuK4T+ xtb039UvYtuS5HLtqOkCxJrkaKNaG8WJCyOmt5V5LP9oUSsKqiKR42CtA001NcmGY6v3 vqngLY7pjFZBmEZLpThP7jxVRWZv4VnyY7p4loLgTiEToo3MTsrsdBKXm+2F67nfOUoa WM/4TjHNci7MchPZChYBBku4cy3WQxtqWC1Ze+LF0eNAZJEpMYac/HgEX1SQBaRiKJ5i /jWw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.96.225 with SMTP id dv1mr9835682qeb.89.1379566180290; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.25.83 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:49:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <523898A3.7000404@googlemail.com> <52389B55.6090600@libertytrek.org> <20130918042228.GG25579@server> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:49:40 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 76b9975f-97bf-4d02-b25f-80a732d8be26 X-Archives-Hash: c05c74a7f04f3ea918c083fbf86a577c > I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from > an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish > one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton > (wiki) information page as such: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS+RAID > > I know I have struggled with completing this sort of installation > several time in the last 6 months. I'm sure this (proposed) wiki page > would get lots of updates from the Gentoo user community. Surely, > I'm not qualified to do this, or it would have already been on the > gentoo wiki.... > > Much of the older X + RAID pages are deprecated, when one considers > the changes that accompany such an installation ( Grub2, UUID, fstab, > partitioning of drives, Kernel options, just to name a few). We're > talking about quite a bit of deviation from the standard handbook > installation, fraught with hidden, fatal mis-steps. Any important points or key concepts a ZFS newbie should remember when installing with it for the first time? - Grant