From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 12:41:23 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 421F916A4C0 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:41:23 +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 D855F43D46 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k51CfLD6062770; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:41:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <447EE076.4040501@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:41:26 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iantcho Vassilev References: <447E63F6.5000205@centtech.com> <20060601040930.95995.qmail@web32711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <18e02bd30606010527m910bac7s74d6696d931465f5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30606010527m910bac7s74d6696d931465f5@mail.gmail.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@freebsd.org 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 12:41:24 -0000 Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > On 6/1/06, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: >> >> >> --- Eric Anderson ha scritto: >> >> > >> > 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... >> > >> >> Well ... one thing we can't underestimate is that SUN would actually like >> a >> port (noticed all the good PR for them Dtrace for FreeBSD has brought?) >> and is >> willing to cooperate: not coding but at least saying what to do, >> explaining the >> code, etc. Reiser doesn't care and SGI is clearly busy with other >> problems >> and >> hasn't really cared at all either. >> >> cheers, >> >> Pedro. >> >> > > 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 >> > > > > > I vote for ZFS as well... The argument by Pedro are more than true..and > also ZFS is an incredible filesystem. It would be a SUPER SUPER step to > have > it on FreeBSD. > > Iantcho Agreed it would be. I'd love to see it (I'm an advocate for as many filesystems available as possible actually). So, the real question is, who's going to volunteer to start actually porting it? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------