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    HOW TO: 2.4.0 ZFS Install, RAM Disk, Hot Spare, Snapshot, Resilver Root Drive

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    • GilG Offline
      Gil Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      Given the Low Specs on an SG-1000 (RAM particularly) I imagine ZFS is a bad idea?

      11 cheers for binary

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      • ivorI Offline
        ivor
        last edited by

        Correct, we do not support or recommend running ZFS on SG-1000.

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          SmokinMoJoe @madmaxed
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          this topic is old but I think with fresh 2.4.4 installs there will be more if not all users doing ZFS and should be doing a mirror or 3way mirror. That leads to the question about the GUI interface to manage ZFS. Would it be easier for pfSense just to make a plugin for FreeNAS so the firewall can run as a IOCage jail? The IOCage jail could have 2 NIC's passed to it and now the FreeNAS would manage the ZFS complexity.

          On a side note the pfSense jail would be able to reboot in 1 second. :-)

          The other cool idea would be to have two pfSense IOCage jails so that you could run them in HA, patch and upgrade the secondary while the primary keeps running. I am doing this today with VMware ESXI but because pfSense is a VM it does not boot in 1 second like a jail...

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            Jarhead
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            Can anyone tell me why I'm not seeing an option for ZFS?
            Installing 2.3.5 cd-rom platform. I'm not getting the "welcome" screen. It goes right to select video, then to quick/easy install/custom install. If I select custom, there's no ZFS option.
            What am I missing?

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            • chrismacmahonC Offline
              chrismacmahon
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              ZFS is an available option in 2.4.0 and above.

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              • J Offline
                Jarhead
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                A ha . That makes sense.
                Thanks

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                • K Offline
                  kevindd992002
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                  So is there still no "official" way to have all files in the disk to be included with the 2-copies scheme of set (when "zfs set copies=2 zroot" is set) after installation? I can't find anything in the Internet that answers this.

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                    scurrier @kevindd992002
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                    @kevindd992002 did you ever find an answer to this? I want to rebuild my system with zfs for more robustness and copies=2 would be some nice additional protection on my single SSD system.

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                      kevindd992002 @scurrier
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                      @scurrier said in HOW TO: 2.4.0 ZFS Install, RAM Disk, Hot Spare, Snapshot, Resilver Root Drive:

                      @kevindd992002 did you ever find an answer to this? I want to rebuild my system with zfs for more robustness and copies=2 would be some nice additional protection on my single SSD system.

                      Not really. No one from this thread seems to want to talk about this further :(

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