FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

[Kris Kennaway]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> ZFS can be installed on partitions and share disks with other things, 
> but the performance will be bad.

There is nothing ZFS-specific about this statement.

> ZFS - contrary to every other filesystem that use FreeBSD disk I/O 
> scheduler - does it's own I/O scheduling, so it assumes it's the only 
> user of physical drive.

This is false.  ZFS uses GEOM along with everything else in FreeBSD, and 
GEOM is the thing that eventually talks to the disk driver to perform I/O.

Kris