From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 19:30:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A0016A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:30:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xride@x12.dk) Received: from swip.net (mailfe06.swip.net [212.247.154.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A2743D45 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:30:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xride@x12.dk) X-T2-Posting-ID: lkM/Dn7LTUP9vUt2XCoVCw== X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from x12.dk ([83.72.97.237] verified) by mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 148925592; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:30:34 +0100 Received: by x12.dk (Postfix, from userid 666) id 107D550839; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:30:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x12.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A965082A; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:30:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:30:31 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Straarup To: Nils Vogels In-Reply-To: <440C9630.2080002@yuckfou.org> Message-ID: <20060309202614.F60677@x12.dk> References: <440C9630.2080002@yuckfou.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-494171202-1141932631=:60677" Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS port using GEOM X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:30:37 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-494171202-1141932631=:60677 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Nils Vogels wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm reading up on ZFS, Solaris's new filesystem that has a level of RAID > built in. You can read it too at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ > > While reading the documents, I was really charmed by the features ZFS > has incorporated, and was wondering if there was any effort within the > FreeBSD community to port ZFS to FreeBSD (using GEOM would seem the most > likely choice, so thats why I'm posting to this list.) > > Research on various mailing lists taught me that there is only a few > mentions on the -hackers list in 2004, nothing else seems to pop up. > > Are there any plans or efforts to incorporate ZFS into FreeBSD, that you > know of, or constructions with similar features? > It would save me an install of OpenSolaris, plus the effort needed to > learn the internals of yet another *NIX version :-) > > Greetings, > > Nils > > I haven't heard of any one actually working on porting it. So as i always say "send-pr with a patch" (; I've looked at it the idea seems neat But it haven't found the time, motivation and skills to try porting it. Best regards S=F8ren Straarup Soeren Straarup | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride FreeBSD wannabe | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation. - Bertrand Meyer --0-494171202-1141932631=:60677--