MFC ZFS: when?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 28 13:21:01 PST 2008


2008/11/21 Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>:

>> Once no new bugs appear any more, and old one are fixed.
>
>
> That's a pretty cop-out answer.  Considering the the version of ZFS in 7.x
> has significant issues and the ZFS patches havn't shown any propensity to
> affect non-ZFS systems when ZFS is not running or loaded, the benefit of
> importing the new code seems to outweigh any caution you might feel.  I can
> understand an answer such as "not in 7.1, but immediately after" ... given
> the standards we apply to release branches ... but a vague "when no bugs
> seem to appear" applies much less to a system like ZFS (still in flux) than,
> say, the new USB stack.

Pawel will probably not say no to any offers of help by people who
would like to help port and maintain the FreeBSD-7 ZFS support.




Adrian


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