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Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:12 AM UTC

boyter wrote: post #18

xxiao wrote: post #16

hope linux can match up, esp on ZFS

I doubt ZFS is ever going to be worth using on Linux unless ZFS has its licence changed. My guess is that a new or existing file-system will implement ZFS's ideas and become usable long before that happens.

btrfs

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by cperciva » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

kermitthehermit wrote: post #20

cperciva wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean by "something EC2 compatible, outside of EC2"...

I'm sorry, I should've mentioned. I was talking about deploying these images on EC2 compatible clouds - like openstack / Eucalyptus. Some of us aren't customers of Amazon's EC2 service, so it would be nice if there was some sort of "how to" build these AMIs. Other than that, I'm happy to see a new FreeBSD release.

Take a standard FreeBSD disk image. The changes I've had to make are to work around quirks in EC2, so I suspect most or all of them wouldn't be needed on other clouds.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by antoncohen » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

If you're thinking of running FreeBSD on your desktop, checkout PC-BSD 9, it's a more desktop (dev workstation) friendly version of FreeBSD.

http://www.pcbsd.org/

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by bombless » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 3:00 AM UTC

Wow,hard to understand the FreeBSD installing menu, so ...hope I can become smarter.Should try some modified distribution

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by axman6 » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 3:00 AM UTC

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #21

boyter wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt ZFS is ever going to be worth using on Linux unless ZFS has its licence changed. My guess is that a new or existing file-system will implement ZFS's ideas and become usable long before that happens.

btrfs

Do the developers of btrfs recommend using it in production yet? last I heard they didn't feel it wasn't complete or stable enough yet.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

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Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by getsat » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 3:25 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #15

noselasd wrote: post #14

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Does this mean that all of the FreeBSD base is also compiled with clang ?

Yes.

All? Kernel + userland? Great!

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by zcid » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 3:39 AM UTC

JOnAgain wrote: post #4

Double-take >> The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3 Is this actually possible now? or is the PS3 still locked to prevent actually installing this?

It's possible if you have a PS3 with the old firmware.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by fasdg » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 4:06 AM UTC

axman6 wrote: post #25

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

btrfs

Do the developers of btrfs recommend using it in production yet? last I heard they didn't feel it wasn't complete or stable enough yet.

No, they don't. Be wary. I tried to use btrfs in raid10 (data and metadata) mode for my latest array of large disks (4x 2TB WD Caviar Blacks); 70 GB in copying data from my old md array, I got a kernel OOPS. This was with very recent btrfs code -- Fedora 16 with a 3.1.x kernel and btrfs-progs-0.19-16.fc16. It's simply not ready.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

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Post by boyter » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 4:34 AM UTC

axman6 wrote: post #25

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

btrfs

Do the developers of btrfs recommend using it in production yet? last I heard they didn't feel it wasn't complete or stable enough yet.

Wikipedia lists it as being unstable. When it comes to file systems that's one thing I would not be gambling on.