zfs discuss - Aug 2010 - JET and ZFS ?

With JET, you can specify a ZFS install by selecting the disk slice to 
install the rpool onto (or "any" to let the install choose a disk).
But
this appears to assume that the disk is already formatted. Or does it? 
It looks like if you specify "any" that it may or may not format the 
drive for you.

With UFS-based installs, jumpstart will format the disk per the 
jumpstart profile. of course. It''s not clear how to dive this with JET.



Any experiences?



Thanks,


mark


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I don''t know much about JET, but a jumpstart install of a system with a
zfs root will do the necessary disk formatting.   The profile keywords 
that describe the disk layout work more or less the same for zfs as they 
do for ufs, subject to the ways that zfs is different from ufs (you 
don''t need a separate swap/dump slice, for example).  "any"
will format
the drive for you, just like for ufs.

Lori

On 08/16/10 09:21 AM, Mark A. Hodges wrote:
> With JET, you can specify a ZFS install by selecting the disk slice to 
> install the rpool onto (or "any" to let the install choose a
disk).
> But this appears to assume that the disk is already formatted. Or does 
> it? It looks like if you specify "any" that it may or may not
format
> the drive for you.
>
> With UFS-based installs, jumpstart will format the disk per the 
> jumpstart profile. of course. It''s not clear how to dive this with
JET.
>
>
>
> Any experiences?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> mark
>
>
>
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