From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 21:42:57 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 243A716A468 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:42:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E58613C4B9 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:42:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827381A3C1C; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC10512C2; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AFF8CBE96; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:42:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jim Capozzoli Message-ID: <20070615214255.GA12923@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070615165131.GC51206@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20070615183413.GA9693@rot13.obsecurity.org> <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <37f72b1f0706151225s53c8c2f1k17d00c9c6f96004d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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 21:42:57 -0000 --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 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--