Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:50:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD Message-ID: <447E63F6.5000205@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060601034133.18927.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060601034133.18927.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > --- Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> ha scritto: > > ... >> >> 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). >> > > I'm afraid adding write support to XFS or reiserfs is not easy, and then > there's the license issue. ZFS might not have the best license either but we > can work with it. Apple's updated HFS license is also something that could be > worked with but Apple is interested in ZFS too so it must have something > interesting ;-). I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for certain. You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though, unless you are talking about read-only support for it. I don't know much about licensing stuff... > NetBSD has a Journalling Google SoC, definitely interesting if they get far. > > Pedro. We did too last year, but it didn't complete. I think Scott Long is back looking at it again (I've seen some hints of life in the p4 repo). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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