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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:02:49 +0200
From:      Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS "stalls" -- and maybe we should be talking about defaults?
Message-ID:  <FE28C814-2031-49D7-AB57-4C05874C1700@digsys.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20130305220936.GA54718@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> wrote:

> I say that knowing lots of people use ZFS-on-root, which is great -- I
> just wonder how many of them have tested all the crazy scenarios and
> then tried to boot from things.

I have verified that ZFS-on-root works reliably in all of the following =
scenarios: single disk, one mirror vdev, many mirror vdevs, raidz. =
Haven't found the time to test many raidz vdevs, I admit. :)

Combined with "boot environments" (that can be served many different =
ways), ZFS on root is short of a miracle.

ZFS on FreeBSD has some issues, mostly with huge installations and =
defaults/tuning, but not really with ZFS-on-root.

Of course, if for example, you follow stable, you should be prepared =
with alternative boot media that supports the current zpool/zfs =
versions. But this is small cost to pay.

Daniel=



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