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Old 27th June 2008
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Well, I have a working ZFS set up, it is just that once it is set up, it is hard to change it.

For example:

I have two slices. If I can successfully virtualize Windows XP in FreeBSD, I want to delete my first slice, which contains a stand alone Windows XP that I will no longer need to dual boot into. Then I will want to expand the remaining slice and its filesystems to cover the entire hard disk. Well... This means I will have to move the UFS2 boot partition over to the left on the hard disk. Then move the swap partition to the left to touch the end of the boot partition. Then mess around with ZFS pools until I have another contiguous, large ZFS pool with everything important on it. This process would have been so much easier if I could just have a swap partition and one huge ZFS partition from which the system can boot.
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