From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 19:37:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68141065670 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) Received: from mail.yellowspace.net (mail.yellowspace.net [80.190.200.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FB58FC18 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) Received: from five.intranet ([93.104.110.130]) (AUTH: LOGIN lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) by mail.yellowspace.net with esmtp; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:37:23 +0100 id 0032549C.0000000049304873.0000763D Message-Id: <9DEE7A69-604D-4CB0-9CC4-69455EC447A3@yellowspace.net> From: Lorenzo Perone To: Zaphod Beeblebrox In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40811211558n5fc77a54v3d4589dc838af443@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:37:22 +0100 References: <5f67a8c40811211558n5fc77a54v3d4589dc838af443@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: MFC ZFS: when? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:37:26 -0000 On 22.11.2008, at 00:58, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > In several of the recent ZFS posts, multiple people have asked when > this > will be MFC'd to 7.x. This query has been studiously ignored as other > chatter about whatever ZFS issue is discussed. > > So in a post with no other bug report or discussion content to > distract us, > when is it intended that ZFS be MFC'd to 7.x? While I'd seconded update info a month ago, I think it is no more inappropriate. Work is actively ongoing (if you follow -current) and now it's time to take out that old (or new) box and help debugging all possible scenarios on CURRENT before crying after the next kmap_too_small or panic. If I understand correctly, the issues arising with large de/allocations of memory in kernel space is a tricky buisiness which needs careful and thorough testing, tuning and thinking... Afaik, even solaris hasn't ironed out all the potential problems, e.g. if you read this article and the linked bugdatabase entries...: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Limiting_the_ARC_Cache So let's really rather help (if possible) with a -current install, or at least not take time with tedious requests :) Sincere regards to PJD and the whole development core team, as FreeBSD is really keeping up with the fast tech hype - but with style. Lorenzo