Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:00:10 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting ZFS and GPT Message-ID: <d36406630909230100x67cd5874h2fb55941b8de5d7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d36406630909221314j5e140100p31f7f3ad4ab66af6@mail.gmail.com> References: <73A54F2D-CC7F-460F-BF62-09980F7C17C3@gmail.com> <d36406630909171325x2318db24w2ecc5e6e86218d41@mail.gmail.com> <3069EFD8-F215-4DFC-8124-459198CE6C53@gmail.com> <d36406630909221314j5e140100p31f7f3ad4ab66af6@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/9/22 krad <kraduk@googlemail.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? >> >> Anselm >> >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: >> >> 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> >>> 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/
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