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On 15/01/2020 16:41, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 16:10, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
>> There are multiple scenarios there ZFS may be sub-optimal at least: small i386 virtual guests
>> or 32-bit only hardware like AMD Geode, or big amd64 SSD-only systems with bhyve and multiple guests
>> that need lots of memory and should not fight with ZFS for RAM etc.
> That may well be the case, but our defaults should represent the
> configuration that's desirable to the largest set of users, and IMO
> that's ZFS in most cases today.

There is also the policy of not making copyleft code mandatory 
(technically, CDDL is weak copyleft).

If ZFS is disabled in the build, the installer should gracefully disable 
it too.


> It might be that we should default to UFS on i386 and ZFS on amd64?

FWIW, I still use ZFS for root, because of the older MBR and the need to 
multiboot.

Pedro.