From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 08:01:20 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 6EC711065692 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f187.google.com (mail-yw0-f187.google.com [209.85.211.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB028FC1B for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh17 with SMTP id 17so639765ywh.3 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:01:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=cVWC8wqdock9nsUU7rIY6d0rHWo7D71VbaJYe+O154M=; b=wmK7IkVOIpR0Tdv3W5GPwKR4eswq3YlKNz+VgUXmoqPF6kTSNcbDEnv2LzyKYj5ods CaQ824W9D83tZ5mlhNp2ay+Qo3kFIat1lp2UuxdDm/thudh45VqiSYsXLSMFRepoBjes mXTToU3fu5xt7hq7zDOn6xHMKuFaC+X3dCxgM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=r0V1Ac2IH4b/1IcKCVuGf/o96H7s5Taue0l21Oz9cw3O9QJ61x6WT1HbDg4/p3l26V AOgTfIuTMS2znumYtCVrzeYcqol74euhwABM/5OiYnXodXTQudatGCcMV0yrRQFLHTdd EmsfOszJk7/PZ7Fxn+A1nAVeU0uJ25eSmK5FA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.45.11 with SMTP id s11mr1161781ags.72.1253692879410; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:01:19 -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: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:19 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Anselm Strauss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: krad , 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 08:01:20 -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? zfs works fine as root on opensolaris, though it took them a while to get there. Functionally, it should do as well on FreeBSD (and note that the "experimental" appellation was removed very recently, though it has been effectively "production ready" on 8.x for a while), though I'm certain that the rather large memory needs restrict its practical use to 64bit & multiple G of RAM: not your average netbook, by any means. I hope our developers see fit to make sysinstall zfs aware, but I hope we are not pushed (I know how to kick and my screams are deafening) into using it any time soon: ufs is wonderful for us ordinary computer users. -- --