Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:34:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD Message-ID: <447E524E.7050400@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <447E41AE.6050705@thebeastie.org> References: <20060524022245.68701.qmail@web32702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <447E41AE.6050705@thebeastie.org>
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Michael Vince wrote: > pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Hello; >> >> DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in >> FreeBSD too, >> but AFAICT no one has started. >> >> Here is an interesting link: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ >> >> cheers, >> >> Pedro. >> >> --- >> >> >> > Since this is a project that would benefit just about anyone using > FreeBSD, it would be good to see a project like this get funding or do a > fund raise. > As a summer of code project I would assume this would be to difficult of > a project to for anyone but those of a fair amount of experience? > > Mike ZFS surely is cool, but I'm not sure how much it benefits FreeBSD compared to something like journaling, or adding features to our existing filesystem, or even write support for one of the already ported read-only filesystems we have (like XFS, or reiserfs). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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