Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:21:03PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: True, but running out of memory is, in traditional Unix, an irrecove- rable error condition, and if it occurs in the kernel, its only option IS, in fact, to panic. It can also return ENOMEM. Userland doesn't always cope with

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Rogério Brito dixit: Personally, I find the following comment from the FreeBSD ZFS tuning guide most scary: Oh please. You don’t have to use it if you don’t want it. But this doesn’t prevent it from being offered to these who do: “We sell rope to hang yourself.” (Someone here mentioned that

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jerome Warnier: While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? Is ZFS producton-ready? On Solaris, Sun recommends to reformat and restore from backup

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: * Jerome Warnier: While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? Is ZFS producton-ready? On Solaris, Sun recommends to reformat and

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-24 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Weimer wrote: [...] Is ZFS producton-ready? On Solaris, Sun recommends to reformat and restore from backup should your system panic on boot: Personally, I find the following comment from the FreeBSD ZFS tuning guide most scary: To use

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-24 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, David. On Sep 24 2009, David Given wrote: Personally, I find the following comment from the FreeBSD ZFS tuning guide most scary: To use ZFS, at least 1GB of memory is recommended (for all architectures) but more is helpful as ZFS needs *lots* of memory. Depending on your workload,

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-21 Thread Petr Salinger
While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? End of http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/08/msg00130.html: If we still have more time I think we should

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Petr Salinger petr.salin...@seznam.cz writes: Fou our specifics, take a look at our SVN repository http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/glibc-bsd/trunk/, namely freebsd-libs, freebsd-util. Start with target get-orig-source in debian/rules. Out of curiosity, is there any plan to get the

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-21 Thread Hannes
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 09:15:04 schrieb Petr Salinger: While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? End of

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-21 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Petr Salinger a écrit : While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? End of http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/08/msg00130.html: If we still have

Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD

2009-09-21 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hannes a écrit : Am Montag, 21. September 2009 09:15:04 schrieb Petr Salinger: While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related tools). Any plans to enable this support? End of