From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 14:37:16 2012 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 33C22106567D for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from resmaa12.ono.com (smtp12.ono.com [62.42.230.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA538FC17 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from GogPortatil.retena.com (85.219.45.167) by resmaa12.ono.com (8.5.113) (authenticated as nec556@retena.com) id 4FA8826F00BC43C3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:31:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4FA8826F00BC43C3@> (added by postmaster@resmaa12.ono.com) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:34:15 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Eduardo Morras Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 2012.0.2180 [2437/5082] Subject: Re: Is ZFS production ready? 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: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:37:16 -0000 At 16:13 21/06/2012, you wrote: >On 6/21/2012 4:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>stick with UFS. It JUST WORKS(R), and is trusty. >>And it works fast. >What options are there for >2TB file systems with UFS? With UFS2 you can use file systems up to 2^73 (8 ZB). The problem is not UFS, but the old tools used to format the disk like fdisk and bsdlabel. For big file systems you must use gpart. The problem with file system recovery times when "the worst thing happens"(tm) is soluted/mitigated with su+j on FreeBSD9. HTH