From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 21:21:40 2011 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 7D16B106566B for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8228FC17 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2857129fxm.13 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:21:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=w2m5xIkO8C0fnh0BomkfNZ3ljfFeS0o1WQZMyBtmMFU=; b=MmpKGFAH9RWPRBx2W9p0g+3DQmJxUGVY4jgm6PlJJ+3IErF+iWpaHRVBZ4rr7HQXBW mAR4gmUA1C1zi1hi9Z4lszxK38UrJFZuWlUb9kH6KzzW/FbtFhOVhmusZb/9FDFjtmt+ Y6dPqA3oEMuRuljFQs2tJX5Itm5AuVgAJjKOU= 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=Ytbzo/asE1wsL0Qy4bvZHYbljVVksMx6w2dcntAXsjMhjSP0rCMKb7sc6oZYe5dY5d EJ0BDu/8mBmi2M8f2mNU/uPiPMXQ3/us4fQmyxRNvUEwTaNLiIY5PuGOqTDrs/M20Jtc kegldiT81UJV22+XLzRfFa2D+SJr8e0cJbG+s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.76.129 with SMTP id c1mr212634fak.107.1305321699114; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.118.148 with HTTP; Fri, 13 May 2011 14:21:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DCD98E8.8000704@stanford.edu> References: <4DC0534B.1040005@stanford.edu> <20110503213323.GA91026@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4DCD7873.6080907@stanford.edu> <5D9B10D9-3913-4A22-A2DD-D27B49B8095F@mac.com> <4DCD98E8.8000704@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:21:39 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Mike Seda Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE) 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: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:21:40 -0000 On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: > All, > Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can > leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. > > What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? > Should I just install FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE and then apply the backported ZFS > v28 patch such as the one below: > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfs_20100831.patch.bz2 > I use the mfsbsd v28 installer which works pretty well and I have overall stability. However you should note there is a reason(s) it hasn't been MFC'd yet and there has been some reported issues with v28. -- Adam Vande More