Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Working with a VM. Added 1 CPU and 3GB memory to the instance, 4 GB RAM total

Added a 50GB disk, presents as wd2

Commands (edited to show kinda relevant ones) I also have a full backup of my home dir in case I fat fingered anything

  9986  19:24    dmesg

  9987  19:24    sudo zpool create z /dev/wd2d
  9989  19:25    sudo zfs create z/home
  9990  19:30    sudo zfs set compression=lz4 z/home
  9991  19:30    sudo zfs set atime=off z/home
  9992  19:30    sudo zpool get all z
  9993  19:31    sudo zfs get all z/home
  9994  19:31    df
  9995  19:31    du -h ~agc/
  9996  19:32    cd /home
  9998  19:32    sudo pax -rwpe . /z/home/
  9999  19:33    df

 10000  19:35    cd /
 10004  19:36    sudo rm -rf /home
 10007  19:37    sudo zfs snapshot z/home@20190802
 10009  19:38    sudo zfs list
 10011  19:38    ls -al /z/home
 10012  19:38    ls -al /z
 10013  19:39    sudo zfs set mountpoint=/home z/home

This is all on 9.99.something, BTW, but near enough to 9.0_BETA

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 10:55, Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then symlink the /home -> /tank/home?

 

From: Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM
To: Ronald Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost>, NetBSD Users !!!! <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

 

 

 

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:52, Ronald Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Same here. I have two 9BETA machines using zfs. Both have a mirrored pool of two disks. So far things seem to be working. This weekend I will be testing snapshots and send/receive. 

 

BTW, nice job with zfs. 

 

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:47 AM Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

Hi,

ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA.  I've tried it and it seems
usable (I couldn't make it work in 8.0 so it's a real progress).
Now I'd like to know what's its state in 9.0_BETA (still
experimental, quite stable, production ready --- might be too
early) and what's the goal for the future?

Thanks.

 

I have no idea of official status, but I've moved the home directory on my main development machine to zfs, and am extremely happy so far with the results - snapshots and compression ftw

 

Having said that, I did have issues copying some larger files from ffs to zfs until I added more memory.

 

Best,

Alistair