----- Original Message ----- | 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. While we're talking non-CentOS DragonFlyBSD with HAMMERFS -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier