Apr 27
Wasn’t it annoying that FreeBSD never had a volume manager which allowed to resize volumes including the contained filesystem on the fly? Well, it was possible to use gvinum in conjunction with UFS’ growfs tool to make filesystems bigger at least. But that’s not as flexible as Solaris’ ZFS. Moreover, UFS does not support snapshots as well as ZFS does. But finally we have a solution: Since FreeBSD 7.0, ZFS is part of the OS! Although it is still considered experimental and lacks some of the original’s features, it works quite well. Also, it is possible to use ZFS as a boot partition! See this great article.
[...] testing: Dell 2950, Quad Xeon, 8GB, 6×750 GB HDD. I installed FreeBSD 7 with ZFS (following up this article). Firstly it seemed to be a bit tricky, because the PERC/6i controller configuration is — [...]