From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 08:20:31 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 6B34016A46C for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mozolevsky@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0069813C455 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:20:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mozolevsky@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so4217584uge.37 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:20:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=9d95dDc7Ab/zAXoEHx3c825KVL6zCaLiTP28IyRa754=; b=DNo4FAozi9QCMeNOtGTf2wNR1z3jxJtisWPtr37Ikrw93tj/zTiZOVHZXLW5DvIOhKOw99ViDqp0VzKOSnExvfBRiKonxVEeZA933XZZezGh+I1gYFaTUepj03HbYQcl2kL2HjTLS+4YJ00cicAy6V3NPfMjI91v/1heDrf2KEU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=OOQ9IEYIIXM4mP5njvoldFOexAG53WoRTrqpJy9fIeRkrgYQ36AgoXxbOedp9VjAKO8Y6denRVlr82+SzMeNJQPdj98mHQF5jElkVEDnJnLk5i8Di0CjX45MSMmVUWDRKHO8Wj6EEcbMQPhB2sezpgiFhJdsS7Z9eTebcMKPBgY= Received: by 10.66.221.18 with SMTP id t18mr3012857ugg.80.1199694029678; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.248.11 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:20:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:20:29 +0000 From: "Igor Mozolevsky" Sender: mozolevsky@gmail.com To: "Christian Walther" In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0801062310q6992630et93370d5d2d0be2c7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4780E546.9050303@FreeBSD.org> <9bbcef730801060651y489f1f9bw269d0968407dd8fb@mail.gmail.com> <4780EF09.4090908@FreeBSD.org> <47810BE3.4080601@FreeBSD.org> <4781227B.5020800@rcn.com> <47814EAB.70405@FreeBSD.org> <14989d6e0801062310q6992630et93370d5d2d0be2c7@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e5ca3a3b6e5c623c Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386? 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: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:20:31 -0000 On 07/01/2008, Christian Walther wrote: > I don't think so. My guess is that partitioning/slicing disks is a > pain for most of the users. How does one tell how big a filesystem > should be, even or especially on the desktop? I found myself having to > cope with full filesystems several times. That could be a good thing (think programs creating lots of files and not cleaning up after themselves)... > Using ZFS even on one disk just to get rid of fixed partition/slice > boundaries is a good thing. How is that different to creating one / slice of FFS? Igor :-)