From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 21:57:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63315106564A for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maseda@stanford.edu) Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (smtp3.Stanford.EDU [171.67.219.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A13E8FC17 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id EA50DD8150 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [171.65.32.152] (bmir-msob-x237-2.Stanford.EDU [171.65.32.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: maseda) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AA3FD82F5 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:57:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DCDA933.7060000@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:57:07 -0700 From: Mike Seda User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DC0534B.1040005@stanford.edu> <20110503213323.GA91026@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4DCD7873.6080907@stanford.edu> <5D9B10D9-3913-4A22-A2DD-D27B49B8095F@mac.com> <4DCD98E8.8000704@stanford.edu> <5A2E2080-C4DC-493D-91BA-EB86FA446FB9@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <5A2E2080-C4DC-493D-91BA-EB86FA446FB9@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:57:36 -0000 On 05/13/2011 02:20 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: >> Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. >> >> What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? > By definition, HEAD isn't stable (or -STABLE). > How about running Solaris instead...? We have not completely ruled out Solaris 10 (U9 and up). >> Should I just install FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE and then apply the backported ZFS v28 patch such as the one below: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfs_20100831.patch.bz2 > That might be a more reasonable course, but you haven't mentioned anything about the purpose or scope of the system involved; the lack of any such information makes specific recommendations infeasible. The box will act the disk target in a D2D2T backup scenario. > Regards,