On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote: >> I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving >> it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a raidz2 >> volume. > > Wouldn't it be better or just as good to use fuse-zfs for such a > configuration? I/O from VirtualBox isn't really very good, but then, I > haven't tested the linux/fbsd configuration...
ZFS-FUSE is horribly unstable, although that's more an indication of the stability of the storage stack on Linux. We've been testing it at work to see how dedupe support will affect our FreeBSD+ZFS storage servers. We can't keep it (Linux+ZFS) running for more than a few days. Drives drop off at random, the pool locks up, resilvers never complete. When it does work, it works nicely. It's just hard to keep it running. You definitely want to do the ZFS bits from within FreeBSD. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
