I haven't installed FreeBSD yet, but I plan to as soon as 8.0 stable comes out since my wireless card isn't supported until then. Anyway, I am currently collecting as much information as I can about FreeBSD before I download the .iso and start installing. If I understand correctly UFS2 is the default file system for / (right?). After lurking in these forums for a while, I've seen that ZFS is popular, although experimental (that might change in 8.0 with version 13). ZFS does require tuning, optimization, and still it has problems with crashing, kernel panics, etc. as I have seen on these forums! Why aren't people just sticking with UFS2? Is UFS2 really that bad?
My system is a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ430N with a 64-bit compatible intel core 2 duo at 2.00 gigahertz and 2 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM. I plan to install the amd64 version of FreeBSD. I don't plan to turn this into a server or anything; I just use it for light desktop tasks, such as web browsing with Firefox (including YouTube and flash-intensive sites), typesetting with LaTeX, and perhaps a few other things in the command line (email, editing, &c.) I won't even be using a resource-intensive DE like GNOME. I use XMonad and all the superlight tools that go well with it. Will ZFS work well on my system? Is it even worth using in this environment rather than UFS2 or another file system? I've googled around a lot and searched these forums as well. All I got were some sites that explained how great ZFS was, but not anything about its relationship to UFS2.
Could someone shed some light on this?
My system is a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ430N with a 64-bit compatible intel core 2 duo at 2.00 gigahertz and 2 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM. I plan to install the amd64 version of FreeBSD. I don't plan to turn this into a server or anything; I just use it for light desktop tasks, such as web browsing with Firefox (including YouTube and flash-intensive sites), typesetting with LaTeX, and perhaps a few other things in the command line (email, editing, &c.) I won't even be using a resource-intensive DE like GNOME. I use XMonad and all the superlight tools that go well with it. Will ZFS work well on my system? Is it even worth using in this environment rather than UFS2 or another file system? I've googled around a lot and searched these forums as well. All I got were some sites that explained how great ZFS was, but not anything about its relationship to UFS2.
Could someone shed some light on this?