Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800 From: "Joe S" <js.lists@gmail.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <f2c294a10802271449s39782711vead8bd9adf0a0f77@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080227211932.GL3328@dan.emsphone.com> References: <ED5CA995-EFF7-4B78-999E-C4090452FB5B@gmail.com> <20080227211932.GL3328@dan.emsphone.com>
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Thanks Dan. That answered my question. I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD. All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands! On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said: > > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home. > > > > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0. > > > > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I > > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn > > another OS just to have a decent fileserver. > > > > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10 > > Update 4. > > > > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or > > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to? > > > > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in > > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain? > > Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will > actually gain gzip compression support. Opensolaris is up to v10. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com >
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