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

[Michael H. Semcheski]

On 4/6/07, Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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


Dude, for a 16 exabyte order, you're not just getting a Dell, you're getting
a steak dinner from the sales rep first.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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