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 ? Message-ID: <5f67a8c40903231409q17fd0370wd2907525b8b6aff0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9DCF097D-421A-4F5F-8A48-D0286551C62C@young-alumni.com> References: <78cb3d3f0903151209r46837d70m914a23e30a19060e@mail.gmail.com> <4AE4493D5E9141E8812E4BC83FB5A2A5@PegaPegII> <5f67a8c40903161109le12b8afuc25b8c1ec1b6f70c@mail.gmail.com> <9DCF097D-421A-4F5F-8A48-D0286551C62C@young-alumni.com>
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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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