Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:54:58 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT Message-ID: <d36406630909230154seb18e28n3ddf36108e10600f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0909230101y1e6252fgf94a3d67fb72aa07@mail.gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> <d36406630909171325x2318db24w2ecc5e6e86218d41@mail.gmail.com> <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> <d7195cff0909230101y1e6252fgf94a3d67fb72aa07@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/9/23 illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> > 2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com>: > > 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. > > -- > -- > I have a pure zfs system at home and i works wonderfully its really nice to be able to do a make world, and roll back seamlessly if there is an issue
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