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Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:21:08 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Steve Pate <spate@mac.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: ZFS and Deduplication?
Message-ID:  <20100324222108.GB1999@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <11167f521003241117tc9821b8s58f3cdf018e6dd71@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:17:15PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> >
> > 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
>=20
> is it possible that ZFS v22 will be only FreeBSD 9.x or greater ?

It depends. If no changes are needed to the FreeBSD kernel API/ABI that
will make it impossible to merge to 8.x, chances are new ZFS will appear
in 8.x as well. Of course if 8.x will still be around:)

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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