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Subject: Re: XEN and ZFS Status?
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> EchoB wrote:
>> I have read somewhere that ZFS is experimental at best, 
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> and wanted to confirm that. Also, using Xen would be a great plus in a 
>> production environment.
> 
> Xen doesn't exist in 7.0, it may or may not be exist in 8.0.
> 

Despite Ivan's brief and pessimistic assessment of Xen in FreeBSD,
progress is quickly being made, and there's a pretty good chance that
code will be made available soon for public testing.  See Kip Macy's
posting on this thread for more information.

Scott