On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
Patrick Kariuki wrote:
No foreseeable future for ZFS on Linux ... <assumption>any ardent Linux user (Kenyan) must have tried installing *BSD at some point, and continued to use it if they found it worthwhile OR stopped using it if they preferred using Linux instead OR used both :-) </assumption>
I'm taking the risk on 8-CURRENT ... surely its bound to be STABLE at some point, like almost everything on FreeBSD is.
The biggest challenge is having Freebsd boot on a ZFS partition. still waiting ....
Some not-so-faint-hearted guys are already doing it using gpt. http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/ http://www.mywushublog.com/2008/06/freebsd-70-zfs-and-iscsi/ -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain