Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

[Eric Anderson]

Iantcho Vassilev wrote:
> 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


Agreed it would be.  I'd love to see it (I'm an advocate for as many 
filesystems available as possible actually).

So, the real question is, who's going to volunteer to start actually 
porting it?


Eric



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