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

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What are you basing that on?  I can't find any documentation, sources, 
whatever that's at all current.
Well, to be more accurate, anything I find that's current says that 
NetBSD ZFS is seriously not ready for prime time.
I'd love to be wrong, but a few anecdotes does not say "production ready."

Dustin Marquess wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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 completely out of date, while,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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> > In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
> >
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