From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 21:20:34 2011 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 EB5A0106566B for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout026.mac.com (asmtpout026.mac.com [17.148.16.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22768FC08 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:20:34 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp026.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LL50019VKLSG360@asmtp026.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:20:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-05-13_06:2011-05-13, 2011-05-13, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1105130167 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4DCD98E8.8000704@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:20:16 -0700 Message-id: <5A2E2080-C4DC-493D-91BA-EB86FA446FB9@mac.com> References: <4DC0534B.1040005@stanford.edu> <20110503213323.GA91026@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4DCD7873.6080907@stanford.edu> <5D9B10D9-3913-4A22-A2DD-D27B49B8095F@mac.com> <4DCD98E8.8000704@stanford.edu> To: Mike Seda X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE) 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: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:20:35 -0000 On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: > Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. > > What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? By definition, HEAD isn't stable (or -STABLE). How about running Solaris instead...? > Should I just install FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE and then apply the backported ZFS v28 patch such as the one below: > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfs_20100831.patch.bz2 That might be a more reasonable course, but you haven't mentioned anything about the purpose or scope of the system involved; the lack of any such information makes specific recommendations infeasible. Regards, -- -Chuck