skeggoeld, reginleif (2019-01-16)

Initialize SSD (da0)

  • Initialize disk partitioning 
    gpart destroy -F da0
  • Configure disk partitioning as gpt 
    gpart create -s gpt da0
  • Create boot block 
    gpart add -s 1024 -t freebsd-boot da0
  • Create partition for ZFS, labeled with diskX (e.g. disk0, disk1, ...) 
    gpart add -t freebsd-zfs da0
  • Writing bootcode into boot block 
    gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0

Configure ZFS cache

  • rc 
    cp /home/private/zfsusbcache/rc.d/zfsusbcache /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
  • Add rc config 
    zfsusbcache_enable="YES"
zfsusbcache_pool="zroot"
zfsusbcache_device="da0p2"
  • config secondarycache 
    zfs set secondarycache=all zfs-file-system