From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 20:14:57 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 976501065676 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:14:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AAF8FC14 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so68729bwz.43 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:14:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hYJflSkyV+vWVOgGc3CIS3ii4GnTDWgvf3Wd0Iyt+BY=; b=Gb+NRt9kQFSqPL/fZBfCB5QBtUF7F6KxVyWMCE0dvxN9OgME4hKYguZ0/pHfbBwoUs 7qsS80RbtJQtjitjJDvTrX0jvvjET3OTD2xto98klPYFYlKyVzBuOLzU/XkGqnSQojRQ dh+BfcHLM9Y15CTW3tWwxZ3HB8y7cL/6Cm36M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=REPCL3FFhIeJze9AtApYRmGzE7LEUl0hpvjcmSSnLJiP2KRpGTsUtYOLkgNNur4922 PU+gJHXpsa3aTnJSAElI2vDMgVil5R9a9aW3VgRo2zn0FLrhRxx0IjUsFG38Lc2Oa4oU LxFlo9KyRVc42erZr30W7cLA6ejjEQlCyf/JU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.183.21 with SMTP id s21mr119446hbg.5.1253650495531; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:14:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:14:55 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Anselm Strauss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT 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: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:14:57 -0000 2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss > My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root > filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed > for that use? > > Anselm > > > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: > > 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss >> Hi, >> >> I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, >> also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the >> last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this >> be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to include GPT and >> ZFS setup in sysinstall during an initial installation? >> >> Cheers, >> Anselm >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> To big a rewrite needed i think. I've heard of plans to potentially >> release a graphical installer based on pc-bsd, which will do all the bells >> an whistles. Not sure what stage its at though. >> >> The biggest thing we need for the release is for the loader to be compiled >> with zfs support in. It seems to have been in and out over the past few >> months so i try to make sure i have my own version specially compiled with >> it in. >> > > I dont think there are any specific plans at present, as its not deemed stable enough. Its also a complete resource hog compared to ufs, so for the foreseeable future I can't see it happening. One of the good things about freebsd is the range of hardware it supports. If you made zfs the default option you would be making most hardware over a few years old unusable without tinkering with the default options. However two or three years (ish) when the average new purchase its a 16 core system with 16 GB ram, a few ssds and 10 TB of disk and the older systems are the hi spec systems from today then there would be a good case for it i guess.