[wplug] [nycbug-talk] ZFS committed to FreeBSD base. (fwd)

[Brian A. Seklecki]

It looks like FBSD is going to beat FUSE/Linux to the game.  Does someone 
want to phone in the 16 exabyte RAID array order to Dell? ~BAS

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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:09:06 -0400
From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer at f2o.org>
To: NYCBUG List <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
Subject: [nycbug-talk] ZFS committed to FreeBSD base.

Thought I would post this to the list since there has been alot of
talk about ZFS.

ZFS support was just commited to HEAD as an experimental feature and
will be available in 7.0-RELEASE

  From the commit log:

    Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems.

    ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The
code
    in under CDDL license.

    I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of
    software.

    Supported by: Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/)
    Supported by: The FreeBSD Foundation (http://
www.freebsdfoundation.org/)
    Supported by: Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/)

Limitations.

    Currently ZFS is only compiled as kernel module and is only available
    for i386 architecture. Amd64 should be available very soon, the other
    archs will come later, as we implement needed atomic operations.

Missing functionality.

    - We don't have iSCSI target daemon in the tree, so sharing ZVOLs via
      iSCSI is also not supported at this point. This should be fixed in
      the future, we may also add support for sharing ZVOLs over ggate.
    - There is no support for ACLs and extended attributes.
    - There is no support for booting off of ZFS file system.

Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional.

Lets give a very big round of applause for Pawel Jakub Dawidek.

SK
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