Install FreeBSD 7.0 on a ZFS partition
ZFS is an exciting new file system developed by Sun and recently ported to FreeBSD. Many people are excited by the possibilities of ZFS (including us) as it promises to simplify a great many things. It offers:
- increased reliability through checksums, multiple copies of data and self-healing RAID
- elimination of that dreaded “oh, if only I’d made the /var partition larger” feeling. Partitions can now be resized at any time and in fact can each be allocated up to the full size of the storage media.
- built-in compression and encryption
- built-in NFS file sharing
- clean, easy to use toolset for creating storage pools, volumes and much more
- snapshots and rollbacks for backups
You can find the how-to at www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs
Posted by Administrator on Tuesday, January 01, 2008
