Doc issue for 9.0 release notes?

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 16:51:33 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On 9/9/11 10:25 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> According to section 2.2.5 ZFS has just been upgraded to version 14.  See:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/article.html#DISKS
>>
>> However, according to wikipedia's ZFS entry FreeBSD 9.0 is supposed to
>> include version 28.  See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Version_numbers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS>
>> .
>>
>> Which one is correct?
>>
>
> ZFS version 28 is the correct version.  Once the doc tree is tagged
> (scheduled for today), this can be fixed.  Thanks for pointing this out.
>
>> P.S. I'm really interested in knowing when FreeBSD will have version 30 that
>> includes encryption.
>>
>
> Last I was aware, version 30 is closed-source and owned by Oracle.
> Unless they release the source as Sun was doing, I doubt we will have
> ZFS version 30.  (I would be happy to be told this is not true, though -
> I'd love to have ZFS encryption as well.)

    I suggest asking about ZFS 30 on the filesystem list. A little
birdy at BAFUG last night said that opensource groups are not sitting
on its laurels while Oracle marches on :)..
Thanks,
-Garrett



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