Hi. Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So rather than doing sensible work I feel like an idiot instead. I have some 8 TB of storage I'd like to use for that purpose. regards Claus
On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:> Hi. > > Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without > problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an > intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as > 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So rather than doing sensible > work I feel like an idiot instead. > > I have some 8 TB of storage I'd like to use for that purpose.If one wanted to help Pawel & FreeBSD get to a stable ZFS implementation, then spending some time experimenting with it and reporting bugs or problems you run into on your setup would certainly be helpful. However, if one wanted to get a production-ready environment going today using an 8 TB storage setup, going with Solaris would undoubtedly be wiser. If your main concern is obtaining pre-built Solaris 10/Intel packages, there are a few hundred available at http://sunfreeware.com/...I didn't see postfix there, but there's most of the GNU toolchain and a number of common libraries (OpenSSL, libGMP, etc) which will at least help. -- -Chuck
On 21/03/07, Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi. > > Probably a bit premature but has anyone used zfs on FreeBSD "without > problems". The reason I ask is that I have installed Solaris 10 on an > intel-box, but adding additional programs is *not* as easy as > 'portinstall postfix' etc. on FreeBSD. So rather than doing sensible > work I feel like an idiot instead.I know that this answer is quite OT on this list, but there are two software repositories for Solaris. One has already been mentioned in another answer, it is http://www.sunfreeware.com The other one is http://www.blastwave.org There is a nice script called "pkg-add" available, that is similar to apt-get.> > I have some 8 TB of storage I'd like to use for that purpose. > > regards > ClausHTH Christian