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> References: <DFFEE631-BF1B-4C44-8B25-7C1EBE89BB2F@mac.com> <4BAA3E25.9040108@icyb.net.ua> <2FF0A3E3-AF2F-4674-8648-FC01EC87445E@mac.com> <a78074951003241107p2ed38541neb08350e148f09fc@mail.gmail.com> <11167f521003241117tc9821b8s58f3cdf018e6dd71@mail.gmail.com>
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--qlTNgmc+xy1dBmNv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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! --qlTNgmc+xy1dBmNv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkuqkFMACgkQForvXbEpPzTkVgCgmtaCJi6lo3hHorq2VsA+IioG 0H4AoLgkCeV5J5nPnBjovEfsQO7wAlT1 =EX5t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qlTNgmc+xy1dBmNv--
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