[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does OpenBSD support ZFS?

[Jacob Ritorto]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM, <jay at m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:

>
> One of the members of this mailing list has recently written about
> upgrading his Sparc computer from Solaris 11 to OpenBSD, because
> (highly ironically), new versions of Solaris 11 do not support his
> Sparc hardware.


Yeap, that was me.  A travesty, isn't it?



>
>
I am surprised that a Solaris 11 user would chose OpenBSD over
> NetBSD.  I will be the first to agree that there is something very
> wrong with the NetBSD project (I do not know what, exactly, is wrong,
> but very surely something is).  However, I cannot picture a Solaris 11
> user being happy on a system that does not support ZFS.  NetBSD
> supports ZFS, whereas OpenBSD does not (FreeBSD also supports ZFS, but
> without NetBSD's commitment to running on obsolete hardware).
>

I dislike working without zfs , but this machine is a bit too small to have
it.  I use the heck out of it on my larger machines and at work.

>
> Or, is it possible that I am mistaken?  Is there an OpenBSD
> implementation of ZFS of which I am unaware?
>
> Nope, I think you're right and that it's simply not there.  If you read
the rest of my messages, I did at least make it over to FreeBSD where they
have zfs; nonetheless on such an anemic piece of hardware, I won't be
running it.  All that said, the first chance I have to come back to
something Illumos on this machine, I'll probably do it.  I've even offered
to help with dest/dev on Tribblix, which seems to be the closest open
effort to make it happen.


 While I think there's a wide range of merits in making OI smaller, this
particular situation is a specialised case of me 1) needing a dedicated and
low cost "front end" machine to work with some pdp11 hardware I'm
restoring.  and 2) wanting to get a little more mileage out of the large
number of idle nineties RISC computers I have in my warehouse so I don't
toss them in the bin.