sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> noticeably higher chance of leaving you with an unbootable system than
>> if you were using Linux with ext3/ext4 or Windows with NTFS.
>
> Can you back this up? I cannot recall having ever rendered a FreeBSD
> system unbootable due to UFS/UFS2 problems after a power failure or

I can confirm the opposite. I did really bad things with disk drives, 
including accidentally disconnecting SATA cable on working system that was 
doing lots of filesystem writes. NOTHING wrong happened.

I always use softupdates, including / partition (which usually is my only 
partition anyway :)

Once i have failed hardware which sometimes was writting rubbish to disk 
instead of proper data. after discovering this there was a bit mess but 
ONLY in files and directories i was writing to!!! fsck with manual 
attention repaired it all without problems. After fixing hardware problems 
and few files i used it without change.

I can't count how many times i ended with completely unreadable ext2, ext3 
and reiserfs filesystem, the last being really kind of destruction ;)