On Jul 30, 2014, at 4:09 PM, Espen Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> ZFS = FS+LVM. Its efficient in many ways. Its highly resillient to things 
> like silent data corruption ( disk FW bugs, power spikes). It has on the fly 
> checking and repair. Copy on write, snapshoting, NFSv4 native acls and a few 
> more nice things. I dont understand the bashing?
> 

I swear by ZFS on my regular FreeBSD systems (though I was having 
trouble with it on FreeBSD/i386 latterly).  I don't think there's any 
"bashing" of ZFS per se, just a wondering why you'd use it on a 
firewall appliance that's basically a nanobsd setup at heart...

Cheers,

Paul.

> -lsf
> 
> 30. juli 2014 21:44 skrev "Stefan Baur" <[email protected]> 
> følgende:
> Am 30.07.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Vick Khera:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Paul Mather <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> Personally, I think ZFS on i386 has become a losing proposition as of
> >> late.  I ran a ZFS-on-root FreeBSD/i386 10-STABLE system with 2 GB of
> >> RAM and it appeared to become very flaky with ZFS in its latter months
> >> (I eventually switched it out for a FreeBSD/amd64 system).
> >
> > I cannot fathom a sensible use case for using ZFS on pfSense at all.
> 
> I'm not consciously using ZFS for anything on pfSense, I *think* I
> performed the default install, but it could be using ntfs or vfat for
> all that I care. ;-) So I don't know why it's trying to use that - is it
> normal for a default pfSense install or not?
> 
> I just saw the warning message and was wondering what to do about it.
> 
> -Stefan
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