Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:17:23 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the state of ZFS on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <d36406630911051517i6f63abfcpb595f337fce4ffa4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b269bc570911050921mc101138se805c1456cd6abcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <17E3C299-725B-434E-805D-CA0C1EA9C8B9@via.net> <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com> <11167f520911050019k17137f3q6e36614e2178b12d@mail.gmail.com> <b269bc570911050921mc101138se805c1456cd6abcb@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/11/5 Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 2009/11/5 joe mcguckin <joe@via.net>: > >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > unless im missing something you have to do it the legacy way (root@carrera)-(23:13:05)-(~) 0 $ zfs set sharenfs=yes zdump/web (root@carrera)-(23:13:23)-(~) 0 $ showmount -e 127.0.0.1 Exports list on 127.0.0.1: /videos Everyone (root@carrera)-(23:13:26)-(~) 0 $
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