Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 for FreeBSD or Illumos

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe NetBSD's ZFS support is stable when it comes to zpools, but
not the actual ZFS filesystem.  Although as a dom0, zpools might be
all that's really needed for guest VMs.

-Dustin

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> jacek burghardt wrote:
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>> Well I use stuff based on bsd. I run netbsd under xen. I found some howtos
>> on netbsd zfs http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide
>
> Hmm....
> Funtoo is a Linux distro - those install instructions are for running funtoo
> w/ ZFS - so I'm guessing you're running a Funto Linux Dom0 which is
> providing the filesystems to BSD DomUs
>
>> http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=zfs
>> http://ximalas.info/2013/06/03/zfs-on-netbsdamd64-6-0-1/
>>
> These two are netbsd-specific, but the first one is dated 2009, and seems
> completely out of date, while,
> the second one starts with "My endeavour with ZFS on NetBSD
> <http://www.netbsd.org/>/amd64 <http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amd64/> 6.0.1
> <http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.1.html> in late February
> and early March 2013 hasnât been very positive. The kernel panics every now
> and then, even during the simplest of operations such as creating a new
> directory on a ZFS filesystem."
>
> So... kind of confirms:
> - NetBSD, ZFS - not really there yet
>
> Miles
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