From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 16:42:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC5D16A421 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quetzal@zone3000.net) Received: from mx1.sitevalley.com (sitevalley.com [209.67.60.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EFED13C465 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quetzal@zone3000.net) Received: from zone3000.kharkov.ua (HELO localhost) (217.144.69.37) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2007 16:42:01 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:42:00 +0300 From: Nikolay Pavlov To: Olivier Mueller Message-ID: <20070622164200.GA2212@zone3000.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nikolay Pavlov , Olivier Mueller , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <1182338018.10483.27.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182338018.10483.27.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS status now in June? / stable enough for a file server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:10 -0000 On Wednesday, 20 June 2007 at 13:13:38 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > I have to setup a file storage server (non-critcal, just as secondary > backup server) and I am wondering if would be a realistic idea to start > using ZFS. I spent some time browsing the lists and newsgroups, and the > status wiki page looks "good": http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS . > > The http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html page also states: > June 2007 Start FreeBSD 7.0 Release Process, so this may also be > a positive point about overall stability? :) > > It would be to store lots of data, and the FS-compression feature of ZFS > would be quite interesting for this server. Of course I'd be glad to > help debugging any issues I may see. > > So if you are already using ZFS in "pre-production", I would be glad for > a short "go/no go" feedback, thanks :-) > > regards, > Olivier > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It is usefull not only on fat servers. I am using it for /usr/local and /usr/ports on plain Dell Inspirion 1300 with Celeron M and 1GB of RAM. No problems. :) -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ======================================================================