Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:27:21 -0400 From: "Jim Capozzoli" <saltmiser@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS. Message-ID: <37f72b1f0706231127s2e0f0316k91238543b925c757@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070615165131.GC51206@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20070615183413.GA9693@rot13.obsecurity.org> <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On 6/15/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:25:12PM -0400, Jim Capozzoli wrote: > > On 6/15/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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
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