From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 23:11:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B8E106566B for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:11:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576CA8FC15 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc34 with SMTP id 34so1132626vxc.13 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.177.205 with SMTP id bj13mr10568vcb.39.1307573179184; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.80.144 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:46:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.173.86] In-Reply-To: <20110608211203.GA35440@alchemy.franken.de> References: <4DECB197.8020102@FreeBSD.org> <20110608211203.GA35440@alchemy.franken.de> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:46:19 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Marius Strobl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:11:06 -0000 On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0200, Martin Matuska wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have merged ZFS version 28 to 8-STABLE (revision 222741) >> >> New major features: >> >> - data deduplication >> - triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3) >> - zfs diff >> - zpool split >> - snapshot holds >> - zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier >> =A0 transaction group >> - possibility to import pool in read-only mode >> >> For updating, there is a compatibility layer so that in the update phase >> most functionality of the new zfs binaries can be used with the old >> kernel module and old zfs binaries with the new kernel module. > > Beware that the compatibility layer is known broken on big-endian > architectures, i.e. powerpc64 and sparc64. Thanks for the heads-up! I was just about to update a couple of sparc64 machines here. Fortunately, the only ZFS file systems there are external file systems (no /, /usr, /var etc...), so it's gonna be painless, I suppos= e. But what about other layouts? Does it mean that an installkernel, reboot, and installworld won't work? >> If upgrading your boot pool to version 28, please don't forget to read >> UPDATING and properly update your boot code. >> >> Thanks to everyone working on the ZFS port, especially to >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd) for doing most of the work! > > Marius Thanks, -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/