FreeBSD 10 and zfsd

[Allan Jude]

On 2013-10-10 13:26, Alan Somers wrote:
> 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")
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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.
See, all you have to do is complain loudly enough :p

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Allan Jude