<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19-May-09, at 3:12 PM, Brad Schonhorst wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.saad@ymail.com">mark.saad@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I hate to say it but zfs is your only choice in the 1TB size , and its freebsd or solaris on whole disks not partitions is the only option .<br> </blockquote><div><br>Was hoping for an OpenBSD option but zfs in Free may be a good alternate. <br><br>How stable is the FreeBSD port of zfs? Thought I read somewhere it was still considered "beta."<br></div> </div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>how good are your backups :)</div><div><br></div><div>I've had it working as advertised on several R&D systems, seems to behave under load well etc. There is a bit of hand tuning you'll want to do but I've had a good experience with it so far and there may be some corner cases you may run into as well. So i'd hold off using it for mission critical data were any downtime is going to get you fired.</div><div><br></div><div>-pete</div></div></body></html>