Started using zfs

[Tiberius Duval]

Re-installed system today, now using zfs-filesystem. I do not know is it just something I imagine or is it really faster than old UFS, certainly it feels faster. Adding partition reserved for PCBSD from usb-harddisk to common pool was surprisingly easy, only bad surprise was that system stubbornly refused to boot after that. Reason for that was that said HD started slowly so that system simply stopped to wait for it and could'nt mount filesystem, after booting to linux and little studying I could boot up PCBSD by using boot console and parameter set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000, after that system booted normally, added said parameter then to loader.conf.

[purgatori]

I'm keen to try ZFS, if/when I get the hardware to run it :P

[Tiberius Duval]

Seems to me that system is more responsive than before. Still performance in some areas is less than I hoped. For example Firefox starts up faster in Kubuntu, and also Okular works more smoothly with really big pdf files in Kubuntu. But now overall performance differences are not so big than before.

Also ease of use of filesystem tools are very big plus for zfs, never seen anything so easy (and still powerfull). I think I will be booting to PCBSD way more frequently than before.