FreeBSD 10 and zfsd

[Alan Somers]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-10 12:13, Mark Felder wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013, at 10:24, Alan Somers wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot spares are
>>>> not possible on FreeBSD.
>>>> I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would be
>>>> included in FreeBSD 10.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be used?
>>> zfsd is currently not in FreeBSD/head and won't make it into 10, but
>>> you can still get the source code from its project branch.  It's being
>>> used in production by at least two companies.
>>>
>> So FreeBSD is going to have inferior ZFS management compared to
>> Solaris/Illumos/etc for another 2+ years? Why are things like this
>> allowed to miss releases?
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> ZFSd was a big topic of discussion at the EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit (3
> weeks ago). There is a lot of collaboration going on, to bring in some
> work done by vendors like SpectraLogics. This is the type of feature
> that can be assed in 10.1, it won't have to wait for 11.
>
> You can see Robert Watsons talk "How FreeBSD Works" to see why releases
> are based on date, rather than on feature completion (because things are
> never "finished")
>
>
>
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> Allan Jude
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Due to popular demand, I have located a round toit.  I'm currently
working on rebasing the zfsd project branch to head, after which I'll
push SpectraLogic's recent changes.