FreeBSD will continue supporting ZFS

FreeBSD will continue supporting ZFS

mitjançant FreeBSD - the unknown Giant per Gerard el 02/09/10

OpenSolaris may be dead now,; its advanced techologies such as the ZFS file system continue to live on in FreeBSD. FreeBSD Developer Pawel Jakub Dawidek confirmed that he is praparing a port of the OpenSolaris ZFS v28 file-system. Some of the new features included in v28 are: Data deduplication Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3) zfs diff zpool split Snapshot holds zpool import -F continue to [...]
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From sysinstall to ZFS-only configuration.

I’d like to share how we set up new servers at my company.

As you know, sysinstall currently doesn’t support ZFS or GEOM configuration, but I’ll show you how to convert system installed with sysinstall to ZFS-only server. Even if you don’t want to follow all the steps, please take a look at ZFS datasets layout, which after several modifications I consider quite optimal for FreeBSD.
After doing all the steps below your system will use GPT partitions, encrypted+mirrored swap and mirrored ZFS system pool.
I’m assuming your server contains two identical disks (ada0 and ada1).
Start from installing FreeBSD on the first disk using regular installation CD/DVD. Choose exactly one slice and exactly one partition. Reboot.
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