Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

[Joe S]

Thanks Dan.

That answered my question.

I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.

All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!



On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
>
> In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:
>  > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
>  >
>  > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
>  >
>  > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
>  > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn
>  > another OS just to have a decent fileserver.
>  >
>  > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
>  > Update 4.
>  >
>  > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
>  > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
>  >
>  > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
>  > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?
>
>  Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will
>  actually gain gzip compression support.  Opensolaris is up to v10.
>
>  --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com
>