Dieter wrote:

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>> What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't

>> quite bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I

>> love about OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the

>> reasons I moved to OpenBSD.

>

> Have you ruled out FreeBSD?

>

> Why are so many people so hot for ZFS?  From what little I've read

> about it, it sounds very complex, which means bugs and a nasty learning

> curve.  Not something I'm interested in trusting my data to.

Then again, you give the zfs a name, and throw it a list of raw devices

and you can have that filesystem 'newfs'ed, writeable, nfsexported and

running in a more than usual fault-tolerant raided mode in mere seconds

regardless of size.
Some admins value that. (except the nfs part, but it's optional)