From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 18:06:39 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 1C61516A719; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:06:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joseph@randomnetworks.com) Received: from rhyll.com (rhyll.com [70.84.96.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C35943D5E; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:06:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joseph@randomnetworks.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rhyll.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A992E2E078; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhyll.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sm01.rhyll.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50595-01; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.200.1.175] (unknown [204.102.9.17]) by rhyll.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70172E077; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20060601174648.H37536@fledge.watson.org> References: <447E63F6.5000205@centtech.com> <20060601040930.95995.qmail@web32711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <18e02bd30606010527m910bac7s74d6696d931465f5@mail.gmail.com> <447EE076.4040501@centtech.com> <20060601174648.H37536@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <61E211B0-D3AB-47C8-B921-F2B12E653975@randomnetworks.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joseph Scott Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:06:33 -0700 To: Robert Watson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rhyll.com Cc: Iantcho Vassilev , 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 18:06:48 -0000 On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: > >> 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? > > People interested in volunteering can expect lots of help and > interest, but should go into it knowing that it's a highly complex > multi man year project, and definitely not a summer project or > "free weekends" sort of thing. I'm happy to be proven wrong on > that point, but it would be dishonest for me to suggest it will be > easy. :-) I thought that I'd mentioned this on this list a few days ago, but there is a SoC project to port ZFS to FUSE. The person doing the work is specifically targeting Linux for this, but since we already have FUSE running on FreeBSD it seems like a pretty good way to at least get something working (assuming the SoC project completes). Jeff Bonwick's blog about it: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ bonwick?entry=zfs_on_fuse_linux ZFS on FUSE blog: http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/ ZFS on FUSE website/wiki: http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE I doubt that I'd be any help making the code work, but I certainly like to see this make to FreeBSD is possible. If there are other things that I can do to help then I'd be open to suggestions. -- Joseph Scott http://joseph.randomnetworks.com joseph@randomnetworks.com