Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jim Capozzoli <saltmiser@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS. Message-ID: <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070615165131.GC51206@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20070615183413.GA9693@rot13.obsecurity.org> <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 uf= s3 > >> for very large FS (> 2TB) . Or the plan is to use classic ufs for / &= =20 > >/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 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGcwffWry0BWjoQKURAkjEAKCv8PKmkTIY+blfujpK8kMNJtvVmgCfQbP0 VepI9fISXY1NMGg7ZD2yaOs= =eTrY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--
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