Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 28), Bogdan 'Culibrk said:
> Joe S wrote:
>> Thanks Dan.
>> 
>> That answered my question.
>> 
>> I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.
>> 
>> All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!
> 
> That reminds me to ask, can you do it? Importing pools from solaris to 
> freebsd or vice versa.

You should be able to, as long as you create the pool on the system
with the lowest zfs version and remember to never run "zpool upgrade"
on the newer system :)

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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
>From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html
"Experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem."

I'm not putting this on a production server yet ...



>- Oorspronkelijk bericht -
>Van: Joe S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Verzonden: woensdag, februari 27, 2008 11:49 PM
>Aan: 'Dan Nelson'
>CC: 'freebsd-questions'
>Onderwerp: Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0
>
>Thanks Dan.
>
>That answered my question.
>
>I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.
>
>All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!
>
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:
>>  > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
>>  >
>>  > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
>>  >
>>  > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
>>  > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn
>>  > another OS just to have a decent fileserver.
>>  >
>>  > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
>>  > Update 4.
>>  >
>>  > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
>>  > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
>>  >
>>  > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
>>  > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?
>>
>>  Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will
>>  actually gain gzip compression support.  Opensolaris is up to v10.
>>
>>  --
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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-28 Thread Bogdan Ćulibrk

Joe S wrote:

Thanks Dan.

That answered my question.

I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.

All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!


That reminds me to ask, can you do it? Importing pools from solaris to 
freebsd or vice versa.




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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Norman Maurer

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 07:52 +0100 schrieb Wojciech Puchar:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!
> >>  how sure you are?
> > I would second this.  Just as a "fun" test, setup a test machine with
> > hotswap drives in a RAID 10 zfspool.  Add a hot spare for good
> 
> ZFS looks for me like windows - it solves some problems (2/3 of them 
> imaginary) creating more others. UFS was just too good  :)
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ZFS kicks ass but I whould stay with solaris for using it under
production... 

bye
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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!

 how sure you are?

I would second this.  Just as a "fun" test, setup a test machine with
hotswap drives in a RAID 10 zfspool.  Add a hot spare for good


ZFS looks for me like windows - it solves some problems (2/3 of them 
imaginary) creating more others. UFS was just too good  :)

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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Preston Hagar
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!
>  how sure you are?
I would second this.  Just as a "fun" test, setup a test machine with
hotswap drives in a RAID 10 zfspool.  Add a hot spare for good
measure.  While the system is running, pull one of the hot swap drives
and watch ZFS eat up all of the memory trying to talk to the drive
that is not longer there until you get a kernel panic.  We had this on
Solaris (x86 and 64-bit installs).  I know pulling a drive isn't
necessarily exactly the same as a drive dying, but it still shouldn't
bring down the whole system.
(Paid) Sun support had no answer.

We also tested ZFS on a FreeBSD 7.0 beta, run bonnie++ with a test
file size larger then RAM, this too will eat up all available memory
and bring down the system.  Obviously this could be a bonnie issue,
but still due to the overwhelming complexity of ZFS, it makes me
nervous putting anything in production that would use it.  ZFS has a
lot of good features in theory, but like a lot of Sun software (NFS,
JAVA) tends to be a little over-engineered and bloated.

I don't intend to start a flame-war or anything thing like that, but
in my experience there are still too many potential problems to really
rely on it in production.  It could just be my inability to setup ZFS
properly.  I would just recommend extensive testing and attempts to
simulate drive failures before putting it into production.  If ZFS
ever gets to what it aspires to be, and then got combined with
FreeBSD, you would have IMHO the ultimate server OS, but right now,
FreeBSD with gmirror is pretty darn good.
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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rick Nekus wrote:
> Huh ?> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:
> Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0> > Thanks Dan.> > That answered my question.> >
> I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.> > All I have to do is
> import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!> > > > On Wed, Feb
> 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >
> In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:> > > I'm currently running
> Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.> > >> > > I'm excited that
> ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.> > >> > > I've found that I don't really
> like Solaris that much (no ports!). I> > > find it so different from other
> OS's and I don't want to learn> > > another OS just to have a decent 
> fileserver.> > >> > > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0
> from Solaris 10> > > Update 4.> > >> > > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris,
> at version of Solaris 10 or> > > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support
> similar to?> > >> > > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes,
> and enhancements in> > > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?> >> > Going
> from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will> > actually
> gain gzip compression support. Opensolaris is up to v10.> >> > --> > Dan
> Nelson> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[offtopic]

If you use the Hotmail interface, please don't, anymore :) It does horrible
things to your e-mails.

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RE: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Rick Nekus

Huh ?> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:49:40 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using ZFS on 
FreeBSD 7.0> > Thanks Dan.> > That answered my question.> > I'm really happy to 
replace Solaris with FreeBSD.> > All I have to do is import my zfs pool and 
then upgrade it...2 commands!> > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan 
Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> > In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe 
said:> > > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.> 
> >> > > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.> > >> > > I've found 
that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I> > > find it so 
different from other OS's and I don't want to learn> > > another OS just to 
have a decent fileserver.> > >> > > So I'm looking forward to migrating to 
FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10> > > Update 4.> > >> > > Since ZFS was ported from 
Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or> > > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 
support similar to?> > >> > > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, 
and enhancements in> > > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?> >> > Going from 
S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will> > actually gain gzip 
compression support. Opensolaris is up to v10.> >> > --> > Dan Nelson> > [EMAIL 
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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Joe S
Thanks Dan.

That answered my question.

I'm really happy to replace Solaris with FreeBSD.

All I have to do is import my zfs pool and then upgrade it...2 commands!



On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:
>  > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
>  >
>  > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
>  >
>  > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
>  > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn
>  > another OS just to have a decent fileserver.
>  >
>  > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
>  > Update 4.
>  >
>  > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
>  > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
>  >
>  > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
>  > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?
>
>  Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will
>  actually gain gzip compression support.  Opensolaris is up to v10.
>
>  --
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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Joe S
huh?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Rick Nekus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  ZFS is but one of many things Sun has given the world over the years, need
> I mention NFS,?
>  ZFS is fairly new all around, and Apple is now attempting to use it in
> OSX-Leopard.
>  zfs will work best on Sun/Sparc/Solaris right now, but whose to say now
> that they(Sun Microsystems) have pretty well relesed 'da source, it will
> only get better depending on Developer input from the xBSD"S, and Linux
> distro's...
>  -but ya ZFS is the file system defacto(128-bit wide capable FS, and
> therefore infinite) that will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!
>  just like nfs,..., zfs will be the one all OS's should incorporate except
> of course M$, cause they're balless, godless Addholes, who hate being
> outdone and outgunned as usual.
>   it is different, but just remeber, Sun/Solaris is historically based on
> BSD/Unix -the "real" UNIX of course so you're not far from the truth.
>  "make install RealBSD"
>
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:37:49 -0800
> > Subject: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0
>
>
> >
> > I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
> >
> > I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
> >
> > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
> > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn another
> > OS just to have a decent fileserver.
> >
> > So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
> > Update 4.
> >
> > Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
> > OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
> >
> > In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
> > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?
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RE: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Rick Nekus

unless something else comes along thats better ?  -then I guess I'm not sure.
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:13:47 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 
> RE: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0> > > will replace all other FS's -ya all 
> others!!!> how sure you are?> 
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RE: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar

will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!

how sure you are?

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Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 27), Joe said:
> I'm currently running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.
> 
> I'm excited that ZFS is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.
> 
> I've found that I don't really like Solaris that much (no ports!). I
> find it so different from other OS's and I don't want to learn
> another OS just to have a decent fileserver.
> 
> So I'm looking forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10
> Update 4.
> 
> Since ZFS was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or
> OpenSolaris Nevada is FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?
> 
> In other words, will a lose some features, fixes, and enhancements in
> ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?

Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will
actually gain gzip compression support.  Opensolaris is up to v10.

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RE: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Rick Nekus

ZFS is but one of many things Sun has given the world over the years, need I 
mention NFS,?
ZFS is fairly new all around, and Apple is now attempting to use it in 
OSX-Leopard.
zfs will work best on Sun/Sparc/Solaris right now, but whose to say now that 
they(Sun Microsystems) have pretty well relesed 'da source, it will only get 
better depending on Developer input from the xBSD"S, and Linux distro's...
-but ya ZFS is the file system defacto(128-bit wide capable FS, and therefore 
infinite) that will replace all other FS's -ya all others!!!
just like nfs,..., zfs will be the one all OS's should incorporate except of 
course M$, cause they're balless, godless Addholes, who hate being outdone and 
outgunned as usual.
 it is different, but just remeber, Sun/Solaris is historically based on 
BSD/Unix -the "real" UNIX of course so you're not far from the truth.
"make install RealBSD"
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 
> 2008 12:37:49 -0800> Subject: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0> > I'm currently 
> running Solaris 10 Update 4 on x86 hardware at home.> > I'm excited that ZFS 
> is coming in FreeBSD 7.0.> > I've found that I don't really like Solaris that 
> much (no ports!). I > find it so different from other OS's and I don't want 
> to learn another > OS just to have a decent fileserver.> > So I'm looking 
> forward to migrating to FreeBSD 7.0 from Solaris 10 > Update 4.> > Since ZFS 
> was ported from Solaris, at version of Solaris 10 or > OpenSolaris Nevada is 
> FreeBSD 7.0 support similar to?> > In other words, will a lose some features, 
> fixes, and enhancements in > ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain?> 
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