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Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net>,
	Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?
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Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello Pierre-Luc,
>
> Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>     
>
>   
>> I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been
>> fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now?
>>     
>
> It's still an experimental feature in FreeBSD, though the memory
> allocation issues might have been already fixed (I don't know
> personally).
>
> Many people have reported success stories when using ZFS on FreeBSD,
> however there's also plenty of them who are reporting substantial issues
> when using ZFS. It's up to your own decision whether ZFS will be
> feasible for you; you might want to test it before deploying it to the
> production environment.
>
>   

FWIW, I've been using ZFS on two "jail servers" for months without any 
visible issues. 7.0-RELEASE/amd64.

Hugo