FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
13 points by setevoy
13 points by setevoy
Prototyping a Home NAS with RAID-Z on FreeBSD on a virtual machine: system installation via SSH with bsdinstall, configuring ZFS mirror and working with datasets.
Thanks for sharing this!
What’s the reasoning behind using UFS for the root partition? ZFS seems quite stable nowdays for the root partition.
Well, the reason is that I was using FreeBSD last time 15 years ago :-) And when I first used it a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't aware of how great ZFS is now. So my idea to have UFS for the system was just to "use a simpler one, and it will be more stable". But now, when I've already finished my FreeBSD/NAS setup and used ZFS more, I know that I will use ZFS for all partitions.