From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 6 13:10:10 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 A4475106566B for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647A48FC20 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 06 Nov 2009 08:10:09 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.7-GA) with ESMTP id LFR89501; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:09:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-22-227.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.22.227]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 06 Nov 2009 08:09:18 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19188.8189.660106.589512@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:09:17 -0500 To: Artis Caune In-Reply-To: <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net) 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: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:10 -0000 Artis Caune writes: > > 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? > > yes, please, see > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=197218 I'd say it's a matter of individual risk tolerance and how well one knows ZFS. Reading questions@, current@, and hackers@, there are many people happily running ZFS. But it's also generating _at least_ 10x the queries and problems of ufs, ext?fs, ntfs/msdosfs, and nfs put together. Much of that is "Can I X?" or "How do I X?" ... and the rest isn't. My personal take: ZFS has been out there for less than five years (according to Wikipedia) and is still in the steep part of the development curve. I'll wait until it has a few more gigadays under its belt before betting the ranch. Robert Huff