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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:17:15 -0500
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From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ZFS and Deduplication?
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>
> In the past we broke ABI across ZFS v6 -> v13 update. =A0This basically
> means one will have to update kernel and userland at the same time,
> which would make the upgrade an one-way ticket (otherwise it would be
> impossible to do operations like zpool import once kernel is upgraded
> and restarted). =A0I think, if we plan to MFC it we need to make some
> compatibility shims instead of using the current approach.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net

is it possible that ZFS v22 will be only FreeBSD 9.x or greater ?

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks