From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 02:34:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC9616C4DB for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:34:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871CC43D76 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:34:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.22] (andersonbox2.centtech.com [192.168.42.22]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k512YniT058933; Wed, 31 May 2006 21:34:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <447E524E.7050400@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:34:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Vince References: <20060524022245.68701.qmail@web32702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <447E41AE.6050705@thebeastie.org> In-Reply-To: <447E41AE.6050705@thebeastie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1504/Wed May 31 14:59:14 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:34:52 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------