[announce] NYCBUG Tonight: Yarema on ZFS

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

April 02, 2008, Wednesday
ZFS on FreeBSD

6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant
http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

ZFS — the breakthrough file system in FreeBSD 7 (ported from Sun's 
Solaris 10 Operating System) delivers virtually unlimited capacity, 
provable data integrity, and near-zero administration.  However 
FreeBSD's sysinstall(8) does not yet support installing the system onto 
anything more exotic than a commonly used UFS partition scheme. 
Furthermore, FreeBSD`s boot loader(8) cannot yet load the kernel and 
modules from ZFS.

This meeting will cover installing FreeBSD 7.0 on ZFS as the root 
filesystem with a boot partition on a GEOM gmirror.  Attendees are 
encouraged to read, download and try the zfsboot scripts at 
http://yds.CoolRat.org/zfsboot.shtml.  The rational behind the zfsboot 
script will be demystified and an install will be demonstrated. Anyone 
who brings a (minimum 1 Gig) USB thumb drive can go home with a bootable 
"root on ZFS" installer.  Anyone who brings a hard drive can go home 
with FreeBSD installed on a ZFS root.

Bio

Yarema has been a FreeBSD administrator for more than a decade.  A 
contributor to the FreeBSD ports collection.  Likes to mouth off about 
his latest exploits with the OS only to be rewarded by getting 
"volunteered" to do a lecture at an upcoming NYC*BUG meeting.

Ike will not be speaking due to a work conflict.