From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 13:34:55 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 96EA41065674 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:34:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr) Received: from mx-out.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A94E8FC19 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o78DYqQP023280 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:34:52 +0300 Received: from MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (mx-in-04.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.163]) by mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o78DYqp0016458 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:34:52 +0300 Received: from pluto.universe (62.1.182.160.dsl.dyn.forthnet.gr [62.1.182.160]) by MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o78DYig5027537 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:34:46 +0300 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr header.from=eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr; sender-id=neutral From: Elias Chrysocheris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:34:40 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008081634.41422.eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr> Subject: Re: 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 13:34:55 -0000 On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > 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) ? That's the way I've done it once. It worked for me, so I believe everything will go fine to you, too. > > 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. I have a FreeBSD amd64 machine that is ZFS-only since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. ZFS Pool was in v13 then. It still works fine, even after the update to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with ZFS Pool v14. I have no problems, even though I pulled the plug off by accident (twice...). The system runs fine and the boot partition is also in ZFS. There is no problem if you want to use UFS for the boot partition. I think is a matter of taste. Whatever is your choice I believe that you'll stay happy using ZFS Best regards Elias