Anyone using ZFS on the latest FreeBSD releases without any glitches? Or should we wait for FreeBSD 8.0?
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyone using ZFS on the latest FreeBSD releases without any glitches? Or should we wait for FreeBSD 8.0?
I personally don't use it actively. I set it up on one disk which I don't use a lot but from what I see on FreeBSD forums, so many people are happy with ZFS on 7.x. PS: I wonder how many Kenyans are dedicated FreeBSD users, or *BSD users for that matter. I thought there were mostly Linux users:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
People are not dedicated to freeBSD yet because of their compatibility.I use freebsd only on servers for their stability(tried using pcbsd on my laptop but some drivers like wireless are not yet out or never will), GNU/linux has become the windows in the unix world because of it's simplicity, compatibility and most of all the community.So freeBSD users are there but not 100% dedicated as compared to GNU/linux users.ZFS is currently experimental on freeBSD, if you want to run it just for educational purposes go ahead but very risky on a production server 2009/5/19 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Patrick Kariuki < patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone using ZFS on the latest FreeBSD releases without any glitches? Or should we wait for FreeBSD 8.0?
I personally don't use it actively. I set it up on one disk which I don't use a lot but from what I see on FreeBSD forums, so many people are happy with ZFS on 7.x.
PS: I wonder how many Kenyans are dedicated FreeBSD users, or *BSD users for that matter. I thought there were mostly Linux users:-)
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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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. On 5/19/09, Jamal Mohamed <jamal.worx@gmail.com> wrote:
People are not dedicated to freeBSD yet because of their compatibility.I use freebsd only on servers for their stability(tried using pcbsd on my laptop but some drivers like wireless are not yet out or never will), GNU/linux has become the windows in the unix world because of it's simplicity, compatibility and most of all the community.So freeBSD users are there but not 100% dedicated as compared to GNU/linux users.ZFS is currently experimental on freeBSD, if you want to run it just for educational purposes go ahead but very risky on a production server
2009/5/19 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Patrick Kariuki < patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone using ZFS on the latest FreeBSD releases without any glitches? Or should we wait for FreeBSD 8.0?
I personally don't use it actively. I set it up on one disk which I don't use a lot but from what I see on FreeBSD forums, so many people are happy with ZFS on 7.x.
PS: I wonder how many Kenyans are dedicated FreeBSD users, or *BSD users for that matter. I thought there were mostly Linux users:-)
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain
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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 .... Mich
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
Heard that there are developing ZFS-like filesystem for linux called BTRFS(Butter FS, where do this guys get this names from), was recently ported into 2.6.29 kernel however it is experimental and in heavy development, so lets just wait and see.Although i've heard guys using zfs on linux with fuse(love this thing) 2009/5/20 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
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
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Jamal 'Butter' is acceptable, what baffles me is Sun's direct involvement with ZFS and indirect involvement with Btrfs through Oracle - GPL vs. a bunch of other licences that render ZFS not portable to Linux - don't they have a Legal affairs department at Sun? On 5/20/09, Jamal Mohamed <jamal.worx@gmail.com> wrote:
Heard that there are developing ZFS-like filesystem for linux called BTRFS(Butter FS, where do this guys get this names from), was recently ported into 2.6.29 kernel however it is experimental and in heavy development, so lets just wait and see.Although i've heard guys using zfs on linux with fuse(love this thing)
2009/5/20 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>
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
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True - http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs - the 'short'cut. Btrfs for Linux users is no better... On 5/20/09, 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 ....
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