From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 03:51:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACF916A404; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 03:51:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from sumo.dreamhost.com (sumo.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C394613C465; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 03:51:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean@cyberwang.net) Received: from spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-74.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.74]) by sumo.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2940517B4DB; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (68-184-120-224.dhcp.smyr.ga.charter.com [68.184.120.224]) by spunkymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1068B109F28; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4615BCA4.7030109@cyberwang.net> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:21:08 -0400 From: Sean Bryant User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:51:15 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Hi. > > 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. > > Commit log: > > Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems. > > ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code > in under CDDL license. > > I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of > software. > > Supported by: Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/) > Supported by: The FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/) > Supported by: Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/) > > Limitations. > > 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. > > Missing functionality. > > - 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. > > Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional. > > Enjoy! > > Is it fully 128bit? From wikipedia, which is by no means an authoritative source but I have no idea if this was ever an issue.