Zfs & MacPorts

[Charles Darwin]

On 29-Sep-08, at 1:43 PM, Eric Cronin wrote:

>
> On Sep 28, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Charles Darwin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28-Sep-08, at 4:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 28, 2008, at 07:33, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Charles Darwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to install ports on a zfs formatted volume?
>>>>
>>>> Can't think of a reason why it should not be possible.
>>>>
>>>>> and if so,
>>>>> what is the proper way of doing it? Would ´PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/
>>>>> bin:/
>>>>> usr/sbin ./configure --enable-readline --prefix=path/to/zfs/some/
>>>>> dir/
>>>>> opt´ do it?
>>>>
>>>> If this is the only install of MacPorts on this Mac this will work.
>>>> It
>>>> will install the MacPorts Tcl package to /Library/Tcl.
>>>> But you can also specify another location in order to have
>>>> everything on
>>>> one filesystem, for example:
>>>> --with-tclpackage=path/to/zfs/some/dir/opt/Library/Tcl
>>>
>>> Also consider your applications and frameworks. You may want to use
>>> --with-applications-dir and --with-frameworks-dir also.
>>>
>>> So if you want everything to be on the ZFS drive, then you may want:
>>>
>>>
>>> PREFIX=/path/to/zfs/some/dir
>>>
>
>
>
> Also keep in mind that with zfs its possible to just do "zfs set  
> mountpoint=/opt mypool/macports" and then the default location (/ 
> opt) is under ZFS.  I don't think this confuses the finder/carbon  
> apps any more than the /Volumes/mypool/myfilesystem mountpoints do  
> already.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

Would you care to elaborate please? Thanks