Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:39:22 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. Message-ID: <461774DA.2080200@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Great work Pawel... I see you posted a quick start ... I will have to move my laptop to use this as its non-root fs's :-D R Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Hi. > > I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD > operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be > available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature. > > 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. > > Enjoy! > -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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