From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 10 17:39:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B2E331; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:39:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@allanjude.com) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (beauharnois2.bhs1.scaleengine.net [142.4.218.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6772E42; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.1.1] (S01060001abad1dea.hm.shawcable.net [50.70.108.129]) (Authenticated sender: allan.jude@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CF9D218FD; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5256E680.4000008@allanjude.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:40:16 -0400 From: Allan Jude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Somers Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 and zfsd References: <5256B761.4050301@gmail.com> <1381421583.19140.32451849.084D8E32@webmail.messagingengine.com> <5256E2D5.4060101@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:39:56 -0000 On 2013-10-10 13:26, Alan Somers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Allan Jude wrote: >> On 2013-10-10 12:13, Mark Felder wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013, at 10:24, Alan Somers wrote: >>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Johan Hendriks >>>> wrote: >>>>> When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot spares are >>>>> not possible on FreeBSD. >>>>> I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would be >>>>> included in FreeBSD 10. >>>>> >>>>> Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be used? >>>> zfsd is currently not in FreeBSD/head and won't make it into 10, but >>>> you can still get the source code from its project branch. It's being >>>> used in production by at least two companies. >>>> >>> So FreeBSD is going to have inferior ZFS management compared to >>> Solaris/Illumos/etc for another 2+ years? Why are things like this >>> allowed to miss releases? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> ZFSd was a big topic of discussion at the EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit (3 >> weeks ago). There is a lot of collaboration going on, to bring in some >> work done by vendors like SpectraLogics. This is the type of feature >> that can be assed in 10.1, it won't have to wait for 11. >> >> You can see Robert Watsons talk "How FreeBSD Works" to see why releases >> are based on date, rather than on feature completion (because things are >> never "finished") >> >> >> >> -- >> Allan Jude >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Due to popular demand, I have located a round toit. I'm currently > working on rebasing the zfsd project branch to head, after which I'll > push SpectraLogic's recent changes. See, all you have to do is complain loudly enough :p -- Allan Jude