From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 21:21:01 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 28D1F1065670 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f18.google.com (mail-qy0-f18.google.com [209.85.221.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77F38FC16 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so1816719qyk.19 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:20:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=oZGt6MGh3IGoFkPij9N+BBCpANyF5nmSPzUtpgT70HQ=; b=XoxBbdEESI4bGHLSMsXD0LvNjbcvJ+Gk/fBKgzCxwfb3kKsNEX3wQ4r1q0tFbWWlcE mFLRCrKoycm2OhZ1xnt/V8Dj4kV1+41vx5RrwtFSCYg3hv1xVcWr1z5F8KBLxxSzElTp 3Q9+PF1Y+Ya6QGXA8CQMwEZ2UOXxh5Nt/sbds= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=tYBKwLjx+u18uhikzwjyEP2rrwA6iUbYqvwUMxGaJfkN/R5oAt8qcwG5xsMlKk0gkq bYkFFJs+u3oV9B3q+PVBmhuAGuxSBJYH5l4KtuENUQUhPqENMac6+kL+JtDfTt0JS6RX UqVV4VaQrI7ijBJZ3bbOcT4vVpD8D08mZfDOI= Received: by 10.215.40.1 with SMTP id s1mr8263236qaj.271.1227905731942; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.215.41.1 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:55:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:55:31 -0500 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40811211620x63ea3095m6817d9b9de2d2f9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5f67a8c40811211558n5fc77a54v3d4589dc838af443@mail.gmail.com> <3a142e750811211609u67969c2fqe16a88aea52309fb@mail.gmail.com> <5f67a8c40811211620x63ea3095m6817d9b9de2d2f9a@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 96e33d0410337860 Cc: "Paul B. Mahol" , 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 21:21:01 -0000 2008/11/21 Zaphod Beeblebrox : >> Once no new bugs appear any more, and old one are fixed. > > > That's a pretty cop-out answer. Considering the the version of ZFS in 7.x > has significant issues and the ZFS patches havn't shown any propensity to > affect non-ZFS systems when ZFS is not running or loaded, the benefit of > importing the new code seems to outweigh any caution you might feel. I can > understand an answer such as "not in 7.1, but immediately after" ... given > the standards we apply to release branches ... but a vague "when no bugs > seem to appear" applies much less to a system like ZFS (still in flux) than, > say, the new USB stack. Pawel will probably not say no to any offers of help by people who would like to help port and maintain the FreeBSD-7 ZFS support. Adrian