Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

Mihai Donțu mihai.dontu at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 00:24:12 UTC 2008


On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rick Nekus wrote:
> Huh ?> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800> From: js.lists at gmail.com> To:
> dnelson at allantgroup.com> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> Subject: Re:
> Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0> > 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>

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