From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 12:51:15 2010 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 D20A210656AC for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACBC8FC19 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC6EE71F3; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from unknown (client-86-27-40-229.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.27.40.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:13 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:13 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Andy Wodfer Message-ID: <20101118125113.000008ba@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: <66248F21-1914-467A-9874-B5987F5E4790@internode.on.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives 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: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:15 -0000 On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:42:14 +0100 Andy Wodfer wrote: > Thanks! I didn't know I could use amd64 on Intel servers. Then my next > questions will be: How about the ports collection - does the 64bit > version have most of the ports? I need ffmpeg, php, apache, mysql, > imagemagick, ghostscript, exiftools and a few more small ones. amd64 is well supported now. It used to be that lots of ports didn't work, but I think that's mostly (totally?) been fixed now. > Excellent. I'm using ZFS on a FreeNAS installation. Is ZFS still > considered experimental on FreeBSD or is it now production ready? > What tool or command is used to partition/format/create a large ZFS > drive? The stability has greatly improved over the last year but it can still have issues. Apparently if something goes wrong you'll normally have to restore from backups since fixing filesystem errors isn't something you can normally do. There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR scheme you'll be limited to a maximum partition of 2TB. -- Bruce Cran