From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 08:54:59 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 9F1CD106566B for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C6B8FC17 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so455219fxm.36 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:54:58 -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=zKR+2sQc2wW1hyqdQ6josZQ+bK8qByuZjjztR3Neiug=; b=adBLuIWZMvza1MtUPR0xugnsprukCw8jI/WXt4apqy/YfqdY0/2WuvKiujzeNwH1jN /yO0yzOgfOQ5B7WlC8YJpkOHHlw77+O60nI13ihJxD9bbOi3ijF0R3j4onxFV4g8dN0e b5NO1Sl3wGKCMQMy1jtQeJ4zegmcM0RG1ySbQ= 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=hQRl4j2iw91wCZHj/0unLfHUJJAlq86ZqW6QBjLhdgRWjYASNaX2gNuvxO5gQ1jFuT tdBvhz+C3qq5ozBzN05BD+11QB9DZvCghkXSdmCoYRnCSSeDG9Kn5wWS61RlPregBELm /zG90qYfNMlQTlGJJyUl/39ggmUkrs+xtBH1w= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.237.193 with SMTP id k1mr183948hbp.173.1253696098098; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:54:58 -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 09:54:58 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: "illoai@gmail.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anselm Strauss 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 08:54:59 -0000 2009/9/23 illoai@gmail.com > 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. > > -- > -- > 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