From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 23:04:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945B8106566C for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:04:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com (mail-gx0-f21.google.com [209.85.217.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339CC8FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by gxk14 with SMTP id 14so1803421gxk.19 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:04:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8PYra6f6Uoh6IfgJRTw1xQQVHXrMqq5+rJBoQfah/eA=; b=MRjqWgzbjJ3FZEzKmcilb6BJK3/p236S6aH9zpLmLMyQi59O9IYUIcoy1SYD7hlmC+ h5qKvX3/8ZvCHE4snWTCXo0kKjRvxfFa3p42yBxI4xEmad/fKu9z3WrDEnmjI1ox+uOQ Qjybbq0GZpAx3jPz0ZXNhSk0STeIYjlYLs5q0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mz6xOo3dIvbGTiVnJU93HpIREIuXtu4I06e4wfXqUtGRAjGaSjkHwWoC4aCiC6zww5 rzSL1EMR3MTifRx6gs+jNYecqkEnUL+BAOz16nHLolDxsT60+eM4Nl/aHHTfSBG+SsFx /Pwg6WGufRSJh23k0wNpG4vVp2a9MNrNZ5nGI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.16.74 with SMTP id n10mr374199iba.23.1233615878199; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:04:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <75a268720902020618v2ba3c798s9a6c011d107cb1a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <75a268720902020618v2ba3c798s9a6c011d107cb1a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:04:38 -0700 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Omer Faruk Sen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs root partition boot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:04:40 -0000 On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1? I also use > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/script to create mirror is > there such a a tool for ZFS to use on Fbsd 7.1? > > Regards. > Are you sure you want to do this? ZFS is still marked an experimental feature last time I checked; and if FreeBSD decides to kill ZFS support, you'll be stuck with a unbootable disk. I'd stick with the more mature, tested methods like gmirror or gvinum. Nothing beats a hardware raid though.