Le 31 juil. 2014 à 03:04, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> a écrit :

> tl;dr:  I wouldn’t run ZFS… yet.
> 
> I didn’t see the error message, you’re barking up a tree attempting to use it 
> right now.
> 
> That said, there are certain advantages to ZFS, and there are internal 
> experiments underway looking to use it for a future (64-bit only) release of 
> pfSense.
> 
> The data integrity and resiliency (due to COW semantics & checksumming) (etc) 
> is one thing.  I’ve had pretty good results turning on LZJB
> compression and ‘copies=2”, which is nearly as good as a nanobsd image with 2 
> separate slices, and, since you have a live filesystem,
> has NONE of the drawbacks of the nanobsd approach.  One could even 
> ‘checkpoint’ (snapshot) the zvol prior to any change (pkg install, config 
> change, etc),
> and, of course "zfs send | ssh foo; zfs receive” makes it entirely trivial to 
> keep your entire firewall backed up, rather than (just) the config file.
> 
> People who say, “I can’t fathom a sensible use care for using ZFS on pfSense” 
> or “why use it to replace nanobsd?” are (likely) stuck in a 
> system admin mindset/mentality(*).  I get the same pushback about bhyve (“why 
> would you use that on a firewall?”) from people stuck in the same
> headspace.   I’m not going to reveal everything here, because it’s going to 
> be post-2.2 before any of this comes about, and I’m keeping the focus on 2.2.
> 
> In short: ZFS is not just about building a NAS.
> 
> Jim

ZFS rocks and I don’t see any reason It won’t rock harder with the upcoming 2.2 
based on FBSD 10. 

Multithreading + higher end hardware + more memory = potential fluid usage for 
ZFS. 


So get on the starting block and let’s see what’s going on ! 

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