ETA for ZFS v. 13 Merge From HEAD ?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Chris Ruiz <chris at young-alumni.com> wrote:

>
> AFAIK ZFS v13 requires changes to the kernel that would break the ABI,
> which is not allowed to change in a STABLE branch.  With 8.0 coming within
> the next 6 months, I doubt that 7 will see a new version of ZFS.


Can we have someone who actually knows comment on this requirement?  The
last time this was discussed, I didn't hear this conclusion --- that ZFS 13
required ABI breaking kernel changes.


> Also, OpenSolaris has yet to integrate ZFS on disk encryption into their
> source.  The code is currently under review:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/ .  OpenSolaris uses ZFS v14
> now and on disk encryption will probably be synced to a newer version of
> ZFS, meaning that this would require another code sync with OpenSolaris.


It should be said that importing updates from OpenSolaris needs to be
easier.