Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:46:19 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE Message-ID: <BANLkTi=apyQCK6p9zffK2=OsDXVQvZD8Fg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110608211203.GA35440@alchemy.franken.de> References: <4DECB197.8020102@FreeBSD.org> <20110608211203.GA35440@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> 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/
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