Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:57:07 -0700 From: Mike Seda <maseda@stanford.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE) Message-ID: <4DCDA933.7060000@stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <5A2E2080-C4DC-493D-91BA-EB86FA446FB9@mac.com> 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>
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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,
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