On 7/15/2011 6:37 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, July 16, 2011 04:24 AM, Devin Reade wrote: >> --On Friday, July 15, 2011 10:54:35 PM +0800 Christopher Chan >> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: >> >>> I would not touch ZFS on FreeBSD with a ten-foot pole. >> >> Would you care to elaborate as to why? And specifically if it >> is particular to FreeBSD or ZFS or the combination. >> > > > This is particular to the ZFS implementation on FreeBSD. It is not > stable, please check its list. However, I have not bothered checking on > things within the last year or so after I went with OpenIndiana. I've been thinking about trying freenas 8 as a file/backup server to get zfs. That's based on freebsd 8 which is probably newer than your experience but maybe they haven't solved all the problems yet. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesll at gmail.com