From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 19:25:13 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 857B216A41F for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D3F13C43E for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saltmiser@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so1798233pyi for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:12 -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=Cpsi+YH+dJ2YUQYehkok3Zp3hT3Eg2stdRbc6wKFap1vIDPTV5Gq4ROVReCCjAkCHUpZTIGlMKcKQ9rHHiqKweGnN5YZr/u8mG3ObBOadsUQZLOncJZRXgXR25f7NaAJl6f+1alyiY8nwFQsQD55hhSLp7e9IHK0/gthyGrDkeQ= 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=ToLwPkW/2iMYD+nOpPVU28aAnaVgSuD+CT/g1PC8ajxQbpk43lgxlwN3WRFUnpQZHADrul+fzKUcautK4etybKZStPAaq6hIT68iJbb81W/Ookn2kYh5RxhJBB4itSYYuzebJAEyq/r+4BqWgdvvjy2lplkBPqNSWsyTAgnLpXM= Received: by 10.64.183.6 with SMTP id g6mr5835612qbf.1181935512595; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.239.10 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:25:12 -0400 From: "Jim Capozzoli" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070615183413.GA9693@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> 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: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:13 -0000 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? > UFS2 does not have problems with creating filesystems >2TB so there is > no need for a UFS3 on that account. > > Kris > > -- Jim Capozzoli D6499626857801B6065013E3645A6B75