hoistor
Is it a GPL violation to create a separate .deb which includes only the binary kernel module for zfs which can be simply apt-get'd?
Or are canonical planning on including the zfs code in the base 'kernel-blabla' package?
If the latter, why not just have a sep package for the module? I imagine you'll need to install some 'zfs' package to get the userland tools anyway ?
Is that a 4 disk mirror? You'd be much faster using a raid10 there.
ZFS 'cache' devices are't for write cache either, you'd want a log device for write perf reasons if that's your constraint... Even then it's unlikely to make a difference on a workstation workload with 16GB of memory..
With FreeBSD, the userland is pretty capable (I run all my DBs, some node apps, reverse proxies etc under it) so jails kinda made sense again. With SmartOS I had to run most of my stuff under KVM, so what was the point?
Interesting to see what direction the linux abi stuff joyent are working on goes though.
I'd be completely onboard with SMF replacing the init system on all my fbsd boxes though (I have many on bare metal with linux under bhyve for various things that need it).
I don't think that's an easy port though with the contract system etc solaris had for process accounting.
Ahhh. I miss solaris. FreeBSD is almost where we were feature wise before oracle killed it (zfs, dtrace, jails(iocage) etc).