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Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> writes:
> yeap, i know about ZFS, as i assume, it will need around 1.5-2 years
> from now, when 7.0-RELEASE will be ready.

No, it's expected this fall.

> and i'm looking for a solution for a production environment within
> a year.

There is no other solution.

> on-the-fly growfs is not required. stopping the service for a few
> minutes can be done, since we've got enough redundancy in our
> server farm.
> and UFS2 has growfs(8), that would be enough.

I suspect growfs(8) may take more than a few minutes...

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