From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 11:58:52 2010 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 2E3EE1065676 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:58:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (cc535223-a.groni1.gr.home.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C258FC0A for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:58:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] [192.168.11.34] by midgard (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 17614B; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:35:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:43:48 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 Subject: zfs question 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: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:58:52 -0000 Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualBox). All works very well and smooth so I'm going to transfer this VM to a real seperate harddisk. I have a couple of questions: [1] Transfering the VM is best done using dump/restore I guess? (This after a smallest creation of fbsd81 on the new harddisk) ? My server has five disks: 1 PATA (160Gb), 2 SATA2 (500Gb) and 2 SATA2 (1Tb) The fist is disabled at the moment and the others are ZFS mirrors under opensolaris. they are not usable for freebsd because the zfs versions don't match. I will have to rebuild. ;-) However, I'm a bit worried about the status of ZFS on FreeBSD-8.1 I don't want my system to boot off ZFS like I have now on OpenSolaris-b134 I think it is wisest to have the 160Gb IDE drive installed for FreeBSD system drive w/ UFS2 and after that create two ZFS mirrors from my SATA drives. Is ZFS (v14) ready for production on FreeBSD-8.1 and if yes, will I still need special settings? The server system is 64bits and has 3Gb memory. I hope to get some answers or good reading points.