From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 23 18:27:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A087216A46C for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5199213C46C for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so975969pyb for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:27:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PkDEOu/aGQz5XgjLwEGfnj4E9j/rXWpozz7ixqJLvBs7WlzL1vljf8mJAdn0ozC//eK8fu3LIY5B9UbhQG7RI09XhF5ItNE+Srz23tQy9thmVYsujk/wFbZszyKVK4iWgXfdRh5BgB1ipkaSUXw/3TJnnvNLi7/drSelP/SsQ3w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BEqpons3Sti7mEGiG2UqCesWWy+LbElam/7fCvmhh0R5iSr2jqv/tItveTzsAVmDXIomUrQSP0pVNQsrEI7NLGPj5FADK8n0cNB3Vx/jFGJctpkzRsYt76NbixSHSfxKsXvdg6QDu4yCqKgTjzLVNWy63etSg3WxdN8ZEs2yPVM= Received: by 10.64.210.3 with SMTP id i3mr7355295qbg.1182623241597; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.239.10 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37f72b1f0706231127s2e0f0316k91238543b925c757@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:27:21 -0400 From: "Jim Capozzoli" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070615165131.GC51206@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20070615183413.GA9693@rot13.obsecurity.org> <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS. 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: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:27:22 -0000 On 6/15/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:25:12PM -0400, Jim Capozzoli wrote: > > On 6/15/07, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: > > >> Hi all > > >> > > >> Anyone known what's the futur of ufs2 ? Is there any plan to make a ufs3 > > >> for very large FS (> 2TB) . Or the plan is to use classic ufs for / & > > >/usr and lets > > >> use ZFS for /home > > > > > >ZFS will remain an optional alternative because of the licensing, so > > >UFS and future derivatives are here to stay. > > > > > Yeah, but you know because of how nice ZFS is, a concept of using ZFS > > for /home and UFS for everything else will probably turn into a > > tradition or something. ;) Why couldn't one make it so you have ZFS > > capability during a FreeBSD install, ZFS licensing isn't that bad is > > it? > > It could be done. At the present time ZFS is not really suitable on > systems without a lot of memory (I'd recommend at least 1GB). It is > also very hard to tune it to perform well on i386 because of VM and > address space issues. It might be possible to address these over > time. > > Kris > > Yeah, but at the rate they're making computers with more and more ram, probably in 2 years or so a gig of ram will be like what we think of 256 megs today...some people already do regard a gig as not that much even. Personally, I have a 1.5 gigs in my machine. -- Jim Capozzoli D6499626857801B6065013E3645A6B75