On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Freddie Cash wrote:
On 10/11/08, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:With regards to the traditional BSD partitioning scheme, having a separate /usr, /home, /tmp, etc... there's no reason to do that stuff any more with ZFS (or HAMMER).As separate partitions, no. As separate filesystems, definitely. While HAMMER PFSes may not support these things yet, ZFS allows you to tailor each filesystem to its purpose. For example, you can enable compression on /usr/ports, but have a separate /usr/ports/distfilles and /usr/ports/work that aren't compressed. Or /usr/src compressed and /usr/obj not. Have a small record (block) size for /usr/src, but a larger one for /home. Give each user a separate filesystem for their /home/<username>, with separate snapshot policies, quotas, and reservations (initial filesystem size).
All this about ZFS sounds great, and I'd like to try it out, but some of the bugs, etc, listed at http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems are rather alarming. Even on a personal machine, I don't want these features at the cost of an unstable system. Is that list still current?
FWIW, my system is amd64 with 1 G of memory, which the page implies is insufficient. Is it really?
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