zfs on FreeBSD

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without
> problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an
> intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as
> 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So rather than doing sensible
> work I feel like an idiot instead.
>
> I have some 8 TB of storage I'd like to use for that purpose.

If one wanted to help Pawel & FreeBSD get to a stable ZFS  
implementation, then spending some time experimenting with it and  
reporting bugs or problems you run into on your setup would certainly  
be helpful.

However, if one wanted to get a production-ready environment going  
today using an 8 TB storage setup, going with Solaris would  
undoubtedly be wiser.  If your main concern is obtaining pre-built  
Solaris 10/Intel packages, there are a few hundred available at  
http://sunfreeware.com/...I didn't see postfix there, but there's  
most of the GNU toolchain and a number of common libraries (OpenSSL,  
libGMP, etc) which will at least help.

-- 
-Chuck