On Jun 11, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Patrick Okui wrote:
This is one scenario where FreeBSD is getting interesting.
With the current incantation of ZFS in FreeBSD 8.x you can create a
snapshot of the current filesystem (doesn't take any disk space
until necessary), mount that snapshot, and play with it. (give it a
tcp/ip stack with jails etc). once you're done, you can promote it
to be the primary filesystem.
Scary stuff. So far one thing I know doesn't work is the pf
packetfilter, but ipfw works fine in the snapshot environment.
Eh! So they've managed to backport the stuff NetApp has been doing for
a while and put it in the OS. Anyone who has used NetApp will tell you
the filer is very much like using FreeBSD and I think it is based on
FreeBSD under the hood.
Noah.
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