ZFS "stalls" -- and maybe we should be talking about defaults?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:

> I say that knowing lots of people use ZFS-on-root, which is great -- I
> just wonder how many of them have tested all the crazy scenarios and
> then tried to boot from things.

I have verified that ZFS-on-root works reliably in all of the following scenarios: single disk, one mirror vdev, many mirror vdevs, raidz. Haven't found the time to test many raidz vdevs, I admit. :)

Combined with "boot environments" (that can be served many different ways), ZFS on root is short of a miracle.

ZFS on FreeBSD has some issues, mostly with huge installations and defaults/tuning, but not really with ZFS-on-root.

Of course, if for example, you follow stable, you should be prepared with alternative boot media that supports the current zpool/zfs versions. But this is small cost to pay.

Daniel