Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0
Tom Van Looy
assarix at pandora.be
Thu Feb 28 15:27:43 UTC 2008
>From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
"Experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem."
I'm not putting this on a production server yet ...
>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: Joe S [mailto:js.lists at gmail.com]
>Verzonden: woensdag, februari 27, 2008 11:49 PM
>Aan: 'Dan Nelson'
>CC: 'freebsd-questions'
>Onderwerp: Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0
>
>Thanks Dan.
>
>That answered my question.
>
>I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.
>
>All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!
>
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:
>> > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
>> >
>> > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
>> >
>> > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
>> > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn
>> > another OS just to have a decent fileserver.
>> >
>> > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
>> > Update 4.
>> >
>> > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
>> > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
>> >
>> > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
>> > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?
>>
>> Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will
>> actually gain gzip compression support. Opensolaris is up to v10.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Nelson
>> dnelson at allantgroup.com
>>
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