From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 03:50:11 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 1C62916ADE9 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:50:11 +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 A8C0E43D45 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 03:50:10 +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 k513o9uJ071940; Wed, 31 May 2006 22:50:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <447E63F6.5000205@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:50:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com References: <20060601034133.18927.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060601034133.18927.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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 , Michael Vince 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 03:50:13 -0000 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > --- Eric Anderson 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------