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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:07:50 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <20070406030750.GA18778@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:57:00AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Commit log:
>=20
>   Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems.
>  =20
>   ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code
>   in under CDDL license.
>  =20
>   I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of
>   software.
>  =20
>   Supported by:	Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/)
>   Supported by:	The FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/)
>   Supported by:	Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/)
>=20
> Limitations.
>=20
>   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.
>=20
> Missing functionality.
>=20
>   - 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.
>=20
> Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional.
>=20
> Enjoy!

Give yourself a pat on the back :)

Kris

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