Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

[Iantcho Vassilev]

On 6/1/06, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com <pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> ha scritto:
>
> >
> > I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for
> > certain.    You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though,
> > unless you are talking about read-only support for it.  I don't know
> > much about licensing stuff...
> >
>
> Well ... one thing we can't underestimate is that SUN would actually like
> a
> port (noticed all the good PR for them Dtrace for FreeBSD has brought?)
> and is
> willing to cooperate: not coding but at least saying what to do,
> explaining the
> code, etc. Reiser doesn't care and SGI is clearly busy with other problems
> and
> hasn't really cared at all either.
>
> cheers,
>
>     Pedro.
>
> > > NetBSD has a Journalling Google SoC, definitely interesting if they
> get
> > far.
> > >
> > >     Pedro.
> >
> > We did too last year, but it didn't complete.  I think Scott Long is
> > back looking at it again (I've seen some hints of life in the p4 repo).
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >



I vote for ZFS as well... The argument  by Pedro are more than true..and
also ZFS is an incredible filesystem. It would be a SUPER SUPER step to have
it on FreeBSD.

Iantcho