From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 22:49:41 2008 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 1B7AD1065673 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from js.lists@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A248FC15 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from js.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so3408583waf.3 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ojh9b8iYEZMeQeVovvivXBUfILWz0Y4kZneNf3tMHrQ=; b=d769/K/nSHSIDKDmD+TRspyythI57UdnyaXCEtfuh84s5bveBZ5pGz/dpICvBTKwSKDLD0CyTSJFzhK5vLNiyZDEild1SSyzErGnjCqfKhnsNzYqfsiAJ9ul1fo0QTaZSSQ/KpGEYvnhF+7yM8rTetHnBW1D64+7HUyg/h1sUDY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m3iV3jl78w+TjBva8okhFAc6w/MOz1WmrmUM3+t9c5vzC0RLHN8kmhKyRFUGFtLPq9sgZA4aBec3GF2VC36cQDQGo7BD5+YKide8P5uhd5cW5uDn/bER5yDQYa7f+Rc/rbqJMyj4E5M9Vv/x+1pBK1JFeu9qyBfZLMiWQHiAn8Y= Received: by 10.114.120.1 with SMTP id s1mr8213458wac.107.1204152580644; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.19.3 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800 From: "Joe S" To: "Dan Nelson" In-Reply-To: <20080227211932.GL3328@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080227211932.GL3328@dan.emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 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: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:41 -0000 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 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@allantgroup.com >