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General Discussion / Re: ZFS / Boot Environments and Jails

« on: March 01, 2015, 08:04:40 pm »

Great news.

As mentioned above, there are lots of benefits to ZFS. Possibly not short term, but long term. Freebsd doesn't have Boot Environments, but the guys over at PC-BSD (Kris Moore and gang) have implemented it. They also use ZFS snapshots to update PC-BSD in place.

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General Discussion / Re: ZFS / Boot Environments and Jails

« on: January 18, 2015, 12:41:59 pm »

Thanks for the reply Franco.

Its exciting to hear you guys plan to implement ZFS at some point. Again I've yet to install OPNsense but I have some hardware (super micro C2550 board) en route that was intended to replace my aging PFsense watchguard box. I recall that bsdinstall (assume you're not using it) was extend to add support for ZFS by Devin Teske and Allan Jude, I believe its just a shell script.

OPNsense in a Jail is certainly something of interest to me and I would imagine many others. There have been a lot of attempts and talk of PFSense in a jail (with various patches), but the end result always seems to be a kernel panic. In terms of cloud infrastructure, the ability to do lightweight "visualization" of a firewall is extremely exciting. If you're able to produce a script (with little effort/work, I can imagine you guys are busy) I would be very keen to test it.

Kind Regards

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General Discussion / ZFS / Boot Environments and Jails

« on: January 17, 2015, 10:25:59 pm »

Hi,

Thanks for your efforts in producing a FreeBSD based alternative to pfsense. It looks very promising.

I was wondering if you had plans to use ZFS as a file system over UFS. I've yet to install so unsure what you're using, but feel ZFS would be hugely beneficial. Implementing something similar to FreeNAS and PC-BSD's Boot environments for easy upgrade and rollback. Also Jail isolation would seem like a useful technology aswell, are there any plans to use it?

I'm really excited to see where you go with OPNSense. I love pfSense but feel like it can be improved. OPNSense looks like its in with a chance.