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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:09:18 -0400
From:      Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ETA for ZFS v. 13 Merge From HEAD ?
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Chris Ruiz <chris@young-alumni.com> wrote:

>
> AFAIK ZFS v13 requires changes to the kernel that would break the ABI,
> which is not allowed to change in a STABLE branch.  With 8.0 coming within
> the next 6 months, I doubt that 7 will see a new version of ZFS.


Can we have someone who actually knows comment on this requirement?  The
last time this was discussed, I didn't hear this conclusion --- that ZFS 13
required ABI breaking kernel changes.


> Also, OpenSolaris has yet to integrate ZFS on disk encryption into their
> source.  The code is currently under review:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/ .  OpenSolaris uses ZFS v14
> now and on disk encryption will probably be synced to a newer version of
> ZFS, meaning that this would require another code sync with OpenSolaris.


It should be said that importing updates from OpenSolaris needs to be
easier.



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