http://www.neowin.net/news/moving-the-steam-folder-on-linux-is-causing-users-entire-file-systems-to-be-deleted
classy
quality
That's what she said!!
maybe linux needs something like android permissions
applications can write to their own directory, can write to network etc etc.
SELinux
does that do it?
does steam support it?
SELinux can do that yeah, Steam probably doesn't support it
"selinux prevents steam from starting up"
heh
the alternative is to not use steam at all
SELinux is really hard to configure properly
damn
ubuntu is doing a bit with apparmor
but none of these things seem standardised for external applications
more zfs puzzlement
I'm wondering if I can migrate from a classic mirror to a raidz
you have to create a new pool
if you want to shift from two drive mirror to 3 way raidz you can disconnect one of the mirrored drives, and create a raidz array with a missing drive afaik
on the other two drives
transfer the data
then take the first disk and put it in
i did raidz to mirrored though so i'm not altogether sure.
from 3 drives to 4, without having enough sata ports for all the drives at once rather than not enough drives.
i'd normally recommend just going to a pair of mirrored drives though
err two pairs
unless it's just bulk storage, and then people tend to want to jump up to raidz2
raidz with 2 3 drive pairs is pretty good though
it's pretty much a major pita doing the transfer
so I created zroot2 on my SSDs, and am using zxfer to do the mirror
what's the easiest way to boot off the ssds later?
just edit /boot/loader.conf ?
what's zxfer
it's a nice wrapper around zfs send/recv
ahh
you can just do attach to go from one drive to two
so zroot2/zroot is a clone of zroot
i see
i don't do zfs root
because i use linux with zfs ;)
in linux you can easily do partitions with zfs
so you can have a separate pool for bootup/system from data
just using beginning of drives
so if shifting from 2 to 3 ssd's, you could just do 3 way mirror.
for systerm, and then raidz for data
ssd's i can understand wanting to do raidz :)
i am pretty sure solaris doesn't support raidz root
you may want to check that freebsd does actualyl support it
the probelm is the ssds aren't the same size as the currnt /
so I need to use send/recv to move the data
but then I'm not sure how to get it to boot that
i see, and then you need to make it bootable.
I should probably simulate all this in a virtualbox :)
are you going from hard-disk to ssd?
yes
2 hard-disks to 3 ssds?
2 hard disks to 2 ssds
oh i thought you were talking about raidz
yes.  raidz works just fine with two drives
better than mirroring :)
raidz2 needs three drives
how's it better than mirroring?
no write hole
huh?
.. http://raid-recovery-guide.com/raid5-write-hole.aspx
raid1 doesn't have write hole
they disagree
well raidz is definitely not designed for two disks
http://blog.pascalj.com/article/migrate-a-freebsd-server-with-a-zfs-root-filesystem/
does that help/
ahh... I might have been misled then
gpart bootcode -b /mnt/boot/pmbr -p /mnt/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0
that seems to be the main thing i had no idea about
that's just to make sure the bootloader knows about zfs
not sure why that's not the default
maybe it is now