From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 08:00:12 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 6B483106568B for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:12 +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 DD5EB8FC08 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so329495bwz.43 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:00:10 -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=oQdITtQiLLIxLO6ogFueyQjDIg1d1uSiBibJoWn9RbE=; b=YmqyGnFLoWhDLbaqquKmqM3fNlGNpbKG+2grwfhEZCPNLsMgAf8oAK0f1SXnilfBMp +LcNW+VdvjotlceJ7+/Y/8pTQCecHflapvxmbjjngVhxxXaog/Iorl3BFPmd6+Dgwzm/ iyePPq25XM1IOemVtItdBZgMbACjGcVRfw07k= 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=XmAv6JWHPnGD28sBrusQ3ZchQbsCLEUdKpmhuzv4O3QfUjwWfnjQ7uacTTZK2KgJPB q+dNotXg2uvWttMolthYIBSFqgvKQ6Eis575Shpxi2JR6+VuHPw+vkwR3d8hVBeEdxeC aBaT74RFNNG+nNIZObv/EWzil0zpA/kPYEC4k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.143.209 with SMTP id l17mr169845hba.165.1253692810477; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:00:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:00:10 +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: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:12 -0000 2009/9/22 krad > > > 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. > > > Having said that look at the bottom right http://www.freebsdnews.net/wp-content/uploads/IMG_2907-large.jpg from http://www.freebsdnews.net/2009/09/22/freebsd-9-0-feature-requests/