Hugo Silva wrote:
Daniel Gerzo wrote:Hello Pierre-Luc,Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote:Hi,I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now?
I am using ZFS on my laptop as a typical, heavily used desktop system. I experience some concurrency issues (the machine "locks up" for a moment while the system is doing some work). I am doing some heavy tasks like compiling OpenOffice in my free time.
I experience very strange behaviour when running out of space (one of the applications dumped a huge core file that could not be rm(1)'ed because of.... "Not enough space"!).
In my personal opinion, the stability of FreeBSD 7.0-stable with ZFS (and maybe other features are at fault, e.g. wpi driver, my ACPI) is not very good. I experience strange hangs and hick-ups, sometimes panics. The good thing about ZFS is that no matter how hard it dies it usually comes up good (once I had to wait a while to let it recover after reboot and reboot the system again cleanly since some files were missing and just re-appeared later).
I am bound to use ZFS because it saves me a lot of space (no need for partition split), but as soon as I setup some more external disk space for my laptop I may consider not using it anymore.
--Marcin
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