FreeBSD 7 Released

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Aron Schatz
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February 28, 2008
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FreeBSD 7 has been released with experimental support for ZFS. The announcement is here. Linux needs to get licensing issues aside and get ZFS without running in FUSE. BSD recommends that ZFS systems only be x86-64 and have at least 2GB of RAM. Pretty hefty requirements for a filesystem.

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Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better. Results are from benchmarks used to analyze and improve system performance, results with your specific work load may vary. Some of the changes that contribute to this improvement are...

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