Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:53:45 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How many "production" releases will FreeBSD have when the ZoL merge comes in ? Message-ID: <16bdb16ada8.27fa.fa4b1493b064008fe79f0f905b8e5741@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1907091556410.84301@kozubik.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1907091556410.84301@kozubik.com>
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Hi, is using ZoL from ports an option for you? Bye, Alexander. -- Send from a mobile device, please forgive brevity and misspellings. Am 10. Juli 2019 01:36:02 schrieb John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>: > Friends, > > I am confused as to how the ZFS On Linux merge will be available before > 2022. The current supported release lifecycle page states: > > "11.4-RELEASE + 3 months (or September 30, 2021)" > > ... and I have heard very pessimistic responses about the ZoL merge going > into the 12 branch. > > So I *think* that one of the following must be true: > > > - We will, at some point, have *three* production branches with -RELEASE > distributions: 11, 12 and 13. > > - ZoL will actually come into the 12 branch, despite recent pessimism. > > - Neither of the above: ZoL comes in the 13 branch, which will not overlap > with the 11 branch, which means (basically) 2022 as the earliest > production (-RELEASE) version of FreeBSD with ZoL. > > > Some background ... > > > We at rsync.net, which runs exclusively on FreeBSD, are *dying* to get > native encryption and raw send. As you can imagine, we can only run > -RELEASE versions of FreeBSD. > > We really want to give Linux users the ability to 'zfs send' to their > rsync.net accounts like FreeBSD users do, but 13.1-RELEASE[1] is a *long* > way off - perhaps over three years from now. > > Three simultaneous "production" releases seems silly. > > So that leaves ZoL coming in the 12 branch as the only outcome that isn't > terrible news. > > > I wonder if there is any of the above that I am mistaken about, or some > news I have missed ? > > > Thanks, > > John Kozubik > > > > [1] In practice, we also don't run x.0 releases in production which sounds > bigoted and superstitious but I can point to 5.0-RELEASE and you need no > further explanation. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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