From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 22:15:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F156C1065673 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:15:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.chn.comcast.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7288E8FC17; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <49160FBC.2070401@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:16:28 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Hogg References: <20081101114717.0ffc2ec8@valhala> <200811011517.37640.lists@jnielsen.net> <1225667670.12521.7.camel@RabbitsDen> <3BB3B5B4-D3A7-4A1E-A5F5-3B33B6479154@onegoodidea.com> In-Reply-To: <3BB3B5B4-D3A7-4A1E-A5F5-3B33B6479154@onegoodidea.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: ZFS for a desktop computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:15:42 -0000 Jonathan Hogg wrote: > On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:14, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: > >> Just a "me too". I am using ZFS on my i386 (Core Duo) laptop: / >> and /boot are UFS2, /usr and /home are ZFS. Main appeal in my case was >> the startup time after the panic -- doing fsck on 120GB /home was not >> fun. I have to admit that machine has 3GB of real memory in it, though. > > I have everything except /boot on ZFS on an i386 machine with 2GB of > RAM. I've not had any problems. Being able to snapshot the whole system > before doing an installworld is a major plus in my view. Not to mention > the warm fuzzy feeling one gets from doing a full scrub of 1.5TB of > RAIDZ data and knowing it's all clean on disk. > > I'd be happier still if the more recent ZFS patch had made it into 7.1. > It'd be nice for it to make it into CURRENT at least. Is there any news > on that? If you are referring to the new ZFS version, then the answer is that pjd has been busy, but the last I heard Sun still needed to fix some bugs we discovered in testing. Kris