Re: ZFS for a desktop computer

On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:14, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:

> Just a "me too". I am using ZFS on my i386 (Core Duo) laptop: /
> and /boot are UFS2, /usr and /home are ZFS. Main appeal in my case was
> the startup time after the panic -- doing fsck on 120GB /home was not
> fun. I have to admit that machine has 3GB of real memory in it,  
> though.

I have everything except /boot on ZFS on an i386 machine with 2GB of  
RAM. I've not had any problems. Being able to snapshot the whole  
system before doing an installworld is a major plus in my view. Not to  
mention the warm fuzzy feeling one gets from doing a full scrub of  
1.5TB of RAIDZ data and knowing it's all clean on disk.

I'd be happier still if the more recent ZFS patch had made it into  
7.1. It'd be nice for it to make it into CURRENT at least. Is there  
any news on that?

Jonathan