ZFS Few Questions

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:26:49 -0600, list, mailing <list at sprymed.com> wrote:

> Question 1:
> With the ZFS snapshots what is the lost in drive space?

ZFS tracks the blocks that change. If you change 60GB of data, you'll lose  
60GB of space. (roughly... there is probably some slight overhead but you  
get the point)

> Question 2:
> FreeBSD 9.0 installable on ZFS root?

Not in the bsdinstaller. You can do it manually though.

> Question 3:
> Anyone Recommend for MySQL server? (Performance)

No idea; I haven't run any SQL servers on ZFS

> Question 4:
> fsck used with when Server just turns off?

ZFS doesn't fsck.