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Old 17th May 2008
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So, which BSD's have the most comprehensive support for the ZFS file system?
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So, which BSD's have the most comprehensive support for the ZFS file system?
for right now , none of them support very good , but I think it use in FreeBSD 8
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So, I'm a linux user who wants to play with a serious unix...ut doesn't want to have to change very much...

like UFS, I'd prefer to stick with JFS or ext3

and I'd like to stick with GRUB, is this possible?
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ZFS is natively supported under Solaris

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So, I'm a linux user who wants to play with a serious unix...ut doesn't want to have to change very much...
You want to learn Unix seriously but also stick to the way Linux works, you cant. Because Linux and Unix are quite different.

and I'd like to stick with GRUB, is this possible?[/QUOTE]

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So....

Can I keep ext3 as /
and can I stick with grub bootloader?


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AFAIK *not* jfs, but you can share an ext3fs slice with the system.
AFAIK, you cannot install a *BSD on en ext*** file system.
But you can keep the ffs*(OBSD), ufs**(FBSD), zfs**(Solaris) for the ON (Solaris acronyms for Operating system and Networking).
I have such a setup with all data, shared files, home, DB, www, distfiles, /usr/ports, /var/db/portsnap, ... on ext2fs systems ("extended partitions").
AFAIK, only need ON to be on the native filesystem.
All the rest are data (the stuff which is personal to you and you surely not want to lose). Data can be housed wherever you like, even a thumbdrive.
Thumbdrive readable by any ON, just have to chown UID/GID.
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So what bits of / need to be on ufs or whatever it's called for the distribution I've not chosen yet...?
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On FBSD, you mostly would need "minimal install" from sysinstall.
On OBSD, all th stuff with xorg is housed within 528 MB.
Tricks are the /tmp which is used for temporary dstorage of temporary space for reading compressed files. This can be linked to another place, but I don't do it (still reserve 512MB for them).
On current hard drives, rule of thumb, the *BSD's are happy with 4Gigs once you put the /obj, /*/*/*/*/work files elewhere.
Say, my typical *BSD slices are:
/ 256MB (FBSD, OBSD 128MB)
/usr 3G
/tmp 512M
/var 512M (no www. no postgres, no mail, ... only keeping the system's tree, but linking the effective data elsewhere).

In fact, I still have a /usr/home/*, but share my ~/.icons, ~/.themes, ~/.fonts, ~/Documents, ~/Downloads, ~/public_html, ... everyrhing shareable on a /exports/${user} directory.

Advantage: test an ON (other OS or an OS upgrade/update) at full load.

As I am the guy wearing both a belt and suspenders, I first install an upgradre or OS on a flash stick before testing it it on the hard drive.

Other OSes remain on the flash stick, as Slax, puppylinux or the new OpenSolaris mini cd.
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why are ya'll calling them slices?

do slices=partitions?
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I suggest you read this section and this wikipedia page.


To put it simple:

ad0 -> First PATA Hard Drive using FreeBSDs 'ad' driver.

ad0s1 -> first primary partition on ad0 -- also known as a 'slice'

ad0s1a -> partition 'a' within the disklabel for ad0s1

and so on.


BSD partitioning scheme is different from Linux or DOS and is fully documented.



The slice/partition notation should probably be reversed but I didn't invent the damn thing :\. One BSD slice is a lot like an Extended DOS Partition but you are not limted to haveing 1 of them and depending on the BSD flavor, 8-16partitons in side them in a manor comparable to logical drives.


Same concept from user point of view.

Unless you want to f*** around with things: /boot, /etc, and possibly /bin must be on the / because /boot is needed for bootstrapping. There is probably no sense in moving /sbin off the / either, the space gains not worth the bother unless your back in 1984.


Typical convention is to create either an a and b partition (/ and swap within the slice) or to create several partitions within one or more slices.

this is my OpenBSD systems layout:

Code:
Terry@vectra-$ df -hl
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a      147M   30.4M    110M    22%    /
/dev/wd0h      393M    938K    372M     0%    /home
/dev/wd0d     98.3M    6.0K   93.4M     0%    /tmp
/dev/wd0g      6.7G    400M    6.0G     6%    /usr
/dev/wd0e      148M   10.6M    130M     8%    /var
/dev/wd1a     11.8G   96.0M   11.1G     1%    /usr/local
/dev/wd1d     44.3G   12.2G   29.9G    29%    /srv
Terry@vectra-$
It functions as a headless file server and without X. The /home partition is small for storing local 'notes' and supported users actual files are stored under /srv/protocol/sharename and mounted over the network on the client system.



(at least modern) BSD systems generally name devices as driver major number [additional information].

i.e. xl0 -> first network interface using 'xl' driver, there is no eth0, eth1, etc -> it's all named by driver.

ad0 -> first pata drive on FreeBSD
da0 -> first scsi/usb drive on FreeBSD

wd0 -> first pata drive on OpenBSD
sd0 -> first sci/usb drive on OpenBSD

etc.


FreeBSDs file system uses soft updates and is gaining journaling support -> soft updates is a different way of filling the same need that journaling does.


Using ext3 under FreeBSD is mounted as ext2 -> and that means mounted without journaling so there is no point in using ext2/ext3 as a FreeBSD system slice.


UFS is better suited for system data.


Use FAT32/EXT2 for data to be shared with other OSes read+write, as ReiserFSv3 and JFS == read only in FreeBSD.
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A slice is not exactly a parition.
On Wintel, you have 4 partition, or 3 primary partitions and one "extended" partition chaining logical partitions one to the preceeding one.
A slice in *BSD (and *BSDs habdle this differently) are a "primary" partitions holding several "logical" partitions (called labels).
In one BSD (primary) partition, you house 16 labels. More exactly, 8 OS labels, and 8 "free" hooks to alien labels.
I.e.: the first "alien" label, usually a Windows FAT or NTFS label will be recognized as label "i", the "j", ...
FreeBSD 8 now recognizes 26 labels (as the 26 letters of the alphabet (only limitation), so it can handle non-ufs2/zfs file systems (aka "logical" partitions) from letter "i" to "z" = 18.

So (as "b" is reserved to the swap. "c" descibes the partition volume, "a" is resrved to / root), you can handle 3 partitions with 6 "logical" partitions, plus 18 "logical" partitions.
Reason why these are called slices: 3 slices (holding 6 labels) plus 18 labels.
Or 2 slices (each with 6 labels) and 2 slices each with 18 labels.

Whereas, Wintel only handles "primary" (one partition, one label) and an "extended" partition holding an "unlimited?" number or chaines "logical" partitions.

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well, i know that in linux, there can be a max of 4 primary partitions...

(i believe that this is a standard limitation of x86 machines...)

now, of those 4 primaries, you can make a logical partition

the logical partition is a primary partition, but is read so as that that partitions WITHIN the logical partition, are unlimited

so, a logical partition can hold several partitions, thus breaking the 4 primary partition limit originally created...
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LINUX, Linux Is Not UniX.
Linux follows the Windows/Intel/BIOS scheme with "partitions"
Unices use "slices" which hold "labels".
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So, which BSD's have the most comprehensive support for the ZFS file system?
FreeBSD 7.0 includes experimental support for ZFS version 6.

Pawel is working on ZFS version 10 support in his Perforce branch. Once he completes writing the regressions tests, he will commit it to -CURRENT. Depending on the timeline, it may make it into FreeBSD 8.0. Info on his talk from BSDCan 2008: http://kerneltrap.org/FreeBSD/BSDCan_2008_ZFS_Internals ZFSv10 allows you to use ZFS without a separate / (root) partition.

MacOS X 10.5 includes ZFS support as well.

AFAIK, no other OSes support ZFS.
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So, I'm a linux user who wants to play with a serious unix...but doesn't want to have to change very much...
Check out the latest release of OpenSolaris. It's basically Solaris with a Debian-like userland and package manager.

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Pick one or the other. Linux has a tonne of different filesystems (ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, etc), while Unix systems have variations on UFS/FFS. Each Unix has thier own version of UFS, optimised to work on the main hardware architecture of the Unix system. (And Solaris now has ZFS.)
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Say, my typical *BSD slices are:
/ 256MB (FBSD, OBSD 128MB)
/usr 3G
/tmp 512M
/var 512M
I hope you mean "partitions" and not "slices". You really only need 1 slice per disk to install/run/use FreeBSD. You partition each slice as needed. About the only time you need separate slices is if you want to run gmirror on the slices.
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The slice/partition notation should probably be reversed but I didn't invent the damn thing.
Let's put the blame where it belongs ...

UNIX came out long before DOS. UNIX used slices (of the disk) and partitions (in the slices) long before the PC came out.

Microsoft and IBM butchered things when they released DOS on the first PC.

When BSD was ported to the i386, they brought along the UNIX heritage.

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True but unfortantly (most of us/) we are stuck on PC's.

Which for me, should we say the PC has quite a bit of a legacy DOS feel to some parts of it's design and implementation when I think about it ;-)


I just prefer how BSD Unix handles the situation, the notation is learnable hehe.
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I'm pretty new to the BSDs and Phoenix's explanation of a Slice vs a Partition is the most easy to follow yet technically precise run down. Thanks for passing it on.
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What is ZFS and why is it better than FFS/UFS?
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