From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 5 17:21:29 2009 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 80338106566C for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com (mail-px0-f190.google.com [209.85.216.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564198FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so120571pxi.7 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:28 -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=qYN4F9EShCVJmLympw65oTz9iIHrzxgwiBI7cEa+83s=; b=AXHuf7K2ZaXHEuK/cfKbaIb+n2I/HKky2eRSS5rbRp3QmStpRVEaw4ljIpUdaU0vpe gmLA88RWecKuFM81LClcFPLzhl9BwouT83IugfWbdSdu9nTtOz+gM55pbhyRDi7YSgi0 4tQtRCf58aQL7QJuBkUhnop2LFS/1VXyvRbQY= 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=Vd9SGE0WZOvrKcowfYQqVhcP8RPq92lgeriCNeptrYIDJ+msc4YREKFzD9WYmL3VG9 Ke3hZG/LB2Dd/5yCN3fKaU7D6C0EnlwfFMCf+njk8OzK6U+reQzHEJyoInyoLqdWsF8m tYbYw377tsVc1bk3PRLj4Z5IlZgdIwTY+0peg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.59.18 with SMTP id h18mr355789wfa.121.1257441688888; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <11167f520911050019k17137f3q6e36614e2178b12d@mail.gmail.com> References: <17E3C299-725B-434E-805D-CA0C1EA9C8B9@via.net> <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com> <11167f520911050019k17137f3q6e36614e2178b12d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:21:28 -0800 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: "Sam Fourman Jr." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the state of ZFS on FreeBSD? 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: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:29 -0000 On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Artis Caune wrote: >> 2009/11/5 joe mcguckin : >>> I'm interested inb putting together a file server with lots of disk. >>> >>> What's the state of ZFS? Is it ready for production use? > > We are using it in production and have a 6TB RAIDZ on FreeBSD8 RC2 amd64 > we are quite happy with the FreeBSD 8 setup. > we tried it on FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and did not like it (we got a few panics) > > the only trouble we really had on FreeBSD8 is the sharenfs manpages > are not updated. so we are using the classic /etc/exports instead of the zfs option. The syntax is the same. Anything you can put into /etc/exports you can put into the sharenfs property. In fact, behind the scenes, the sharenfs property is just copied into a private exports file, and the nfs daemon uses that in addition to /etc/exports. The man pages for ZFS are just dumps of the Solaris ones, so a lot of the info is not quite right for a FreeBSD system. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com