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Roman Garnett wrote: |
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> Sorry to write to this clearly inactive list, but does anyone know |
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> where I can learn more about the development status of Gentoo/FreeBSD? |
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> I'd really like to use Gentoo + FreeBSD 7. I discovered that drizzt |
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> made an overlay to work with an older version of FreeBSD 7. Has any |
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> more work been done in this direction? |
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> Confession: I really want ZFS. |
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Ah, another ZFS fan! :) |
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First, yep, I agree that going to IRC (freenode, channel #gentoo-bsd) is the |
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best way. I found the same thing when I got involved in the project: this |
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list looked fairly dead, but the IRC channel was active. |
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I got involved in Gentoo/FreeBSD for the same reason (liking Gentoo's way of |
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doing things, but wanting to play with BSD). In fact, I became a Gentoo |
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developer, intially for that project. Since then, I ran into some |
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showstoppers on BSD, causing me to need to wipe out my g/fbsd installations |
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and load Gentoo Linux. As a result, I became almost completely inactive on |
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the g/fbsd project, and I've moved my Gentoo development focus elsewhere for |
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now :(. |
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After some discussions at work about silent corruption of large data (we are |
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thinking of installing petabytes of storage), I became interested in the |
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problem, and I went back and tried ZFS on fbsd 7.0. Pretty cool, but I ran |
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into some ATA DMA issues that are still mysteries in the FreeBSD world, it |
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seems (at least last I heard) as well as some scheduler/mouse jerkiness issues |
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that caused me, again, to have to abandon FreeBSD for the time being. |
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Now I am actively using "btrfs" - another up and coming filesystem that does |
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checksumming for data integrity. |
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Anyway, sorry for the long story - if you want to read more on my thoughts on |
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ZFS and btrfs, see my blog: |
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http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/lavajoe/ |
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Good luck with your endeavors! |
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-Joe |
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