Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:39:57 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com> To: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs on FreeBSD Message-ID: <b41c75520703211539m1d6ff4c3y2964f1060cfc9a6e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200703211356.46545.fcash@ocis.net> References: <b41c75520703211331p1454e186h95e5d628afe12248@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0703211349j392f87b7idd2453c2830d0706@mail.gmail.com> <200703211356.46545.fcash@ocis.net>
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> > > 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 know that this answer is quite OT on this list, but there are two > > software repositories for Solaris. One has already been mentioned in > > another answer, it is http://www.sunfreeware.com > > > > The other one is http://www.blastwave.org > > There is a nice script called "pkg-add" available, that is similar to > > apt-get. > > Wouldn't pkgsrc be a better system to use, for someone coming from > FreeBSD? I have gotten ImageMagick, ruby, subversion, GNU coreutils, rsync and other utilities from sunfreeware.com. When I looked at Solaris 6-8 months ago (zfs was the reason) ImageMagick was at 6.0 as a solaris-package and I needed 6.2. So I tried pkgsrc which I thought would be easier do use as package-management, but installing packages was error-prone and I had to use Sun's studio compiler for one package and gcc for another. Ruby was impossible to compile both from source and pkgsrc. Sunfreeware.com's ruby was 1.82 and I needed 1.84. Trying to upgrade postgresql from the Sun-supplied 8.1.6 to 8.2.3 from source takes some time, the package has to be removed etc., there is not yet a package present for 8.2.3. And in the end postgresql failed to start because libreadline.so.5 couldn't be found. So I updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH and changed shell from bash to zsh and edited /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile and .zshrc to get pg_ctl to work but did not succeed. The libreadline package *is* installed and the file is present as well. /())(/"(/%%!$$!$!%!!!==**** And that's when I'm once again is convinced that the FreeBSD-ports-collection is one of the best package-repositories around and hence was curious whether some people did actually use zfs on FreeBSD so I could get the best from both worlds :-) regards Claus
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