From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 20:44:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B51E16A4DA for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:44:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F2313C465 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:44:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay8.apple.com (a17-128-113-38.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2LKiJP9005798; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay8.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id BC1BD40456; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:19 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807126-b0732bb00000669a-9e-460199236e91 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id ADAE94006A; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:18 -0700 To: Claus Guttesen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: zfs on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:44:20 -0000 On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: > Hi. > > Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without > problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an > intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as > 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So rather than doing sensible > work I feel like an idiot instead. > > I have some 8 TB of storage I'd like to use for that purpose. If one wanted to help Pawel & FreeBSD get to a stable ZFS implementation, then spending some time experimenting with it and reporting bugs or problems you run into on your setup would certainly be helpful. However, if one wanted to get a production-ready environment going today using an 8 TB storage setup, going with Solaris would undoubtedly be wiser. If your main concern is obtaining pre-built Solaris 10/Intel packages, there are a few hundred available at http://sunfreeware.com/...I didn't see postfix there, but there's most of the GNU toolchain and a number of common libraries (OpenSSL, libGMP, etc) which will at least help. -- -Chuck