From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 12:49:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EE71065672 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:49:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@onegoodidea.com) Received: from mailhost.significant-whitespace.com (mailhost.significant-whitespace.com [217.155.157.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7508FC19 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:49:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@onegoodidea.com) Received: from [192.168.150.20] (82-69-101-63.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.101.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jonathan) by mailhost.significant-whitespace.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15D167FC1F7 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:30:48 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <3BB3B5B4-D3A7-4A1E-A5F5-3B33B6479154@onegoodidea.com> From: Jonathan Hogg To: FreeBSD Current In-Reply-To: <1225667670.12521.7.camel@RabbitsDen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:30:43 +0000 References: <20081101114717.0ffc2ec8@valhala> <200811011517.37640.lists@jnielsen.net> <1225667670.12521.7.camel@RabbitsDen> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Subject: Re: ZFS for a desktop computer 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:49:27 -0000 On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:14, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: > Just a "me too". I am using ZFS on my i386 (Core Duo) laptop: / > and /boot are UFS2, /usr and /home are ZFS. Main appeal in my case was > the startup time after the panic -- doing fsck on 120GB /home was not > fun. I have to admit that machine has 3GB of real memory in it, > though. I have everything except /boot on ZFS on an i386 machine with 2GB of RAM. I've not had any problems. Being able to snapshot the whole system before doing an installworld is a major plus in my view. Not to mention the warm fuzzy feeling one gets from doing a full scrub of 1.5TB of RAIDZ data and knowing it's all clean on disk. I'd be happier still if the more recent ZFS patch had made it into 7.1. It'd be nice for it to make it into CURRENT at least. Is there any news on that? Jonathan