From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 16:48:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F31C16A40D; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A968713C45A; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l36GPKmI002544; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:25:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4616746A.4030705@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:25:14 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:48:52 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > > Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of > which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy > piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the > first task is to figure that out and construct a news article along > these lines. For example, it has volume-management, self-healing, and > the word "enterprise" can be tossed in easily. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge And "huge capacity". Well, 'tis definitely a Good Friday, then :-) HEADS-UP: Slashdotted. We'll see if they post (dunno why they wouldn't). Kevin Kinsey > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 04:57:00 +0200 > From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org > Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. > > Hi. > > I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD > operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be > available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature. > > Commit log: > > Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems. > > ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code > in under CDDL license. > > I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of > software. > > Supported by: Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/) > Supported by: The FreeBSD Foundation > (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/) > Supported by: Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/) > > Limitations. > > Currently ZFS is only compiled as kernel module and is only available > for i386 architecture. Amd64 should be available very soon, the other > archs will come later, as we implement needed atomic operations. > > Missing functionality. > > - We don't have iSCSI target daemon in the tree, so sharing ZVOLs via > iSCSI is also not supported at this point. This should be fixed in > the future, we may also add support for sharing ZVOLs over ggate. > - There is no support for ACLs and extended attributes. > - There is no support for booting off of ZFS file system. > > Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional. > > Enjoy! > -- Perhaps the biggest disappointments were the ones you expected anyway.