From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 00:38:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5A2106566B for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64C618FC08 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 31950 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jan 2009 00:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 3 Jan 2009 00:50:45 -0000 Message-ID: <495EB39A.9060304@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:38:50 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk References: <495E17AD.30707@isafeelin.org> <20090102160727.A38841@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <867i5dsoll.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <20090102174809.B39293@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090102201730.GC22308@teddy.fas.com> <20090102222428.e06eddac.dick@nagual.nl> <495EB07C.9000401@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <495EB07C.9000401@ibctech.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:38:52 -0000 Steve Bertrand wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:17:30 -0500 >> stan wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>>>> think twice before doing. >>>>> Could you elaborate please ? >>>> ZFS still doesn't work as described ... >>> Is that comment FreeBSD specifc, or aimed at ZFS in general? >> Mind you, ZFS on FreeBSD is not the same as on OpenSolaris-2008.11, >> Nevada or even Solaris 10. On those platforms ZFS generally does what it >> is supposed to do, other than it's still a developing FS. >> On *BSD related systems that is not always the case. Do a good readup. > > I had problems with ZFS about a year ago (or so). > > Since then, for me, ZFS has been quite reliable: I forgot to mention... the "Since then" should have also included that at the time of unreliability, I was testing a new NVidia motherboard. "Since then, I've swapped out the board to an Intel hardware platform". Steve