Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:30:31 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Straarup <xride@x12.dk> To: Nils Vogels <nivo@yuckfou.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS port using GEOM Message-ID: <20060309202614.F60677@x12.dk> In-Reply-To: <440C9630.2080002@yuckfou.org>
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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 Søren Straarup Soeren Straarup | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride FreeBSD wannabe | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation. - Bertrand Meyerhelp
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