HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

[Boris Kochergin]

On 06/06/11 06:53, Martin Matuska wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have merged ZFS version 28 to 8-STABLE (revision 222741)
>
> New major features:
>
> - data deduplication
> - triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3)
> - zfs diff
> - zpool split
> - snapshot holds
> - zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier
>    transaction group
> - possibility to import pool in read-only mode
>
> For updating, there is a compatibility layer so that in the update phase
> most functionality of the new zfs binaries can be used with the old
> kernel module and old zfs binaries with the new kernel module.
>
> If upgrading your boot pool to version 28, please don't forget to read
> UPDATING and properly update your boot code.
>
> Thanks to everyone working on the ZFS port, especially to
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd) for doing most of the work!
>
Thanks for everyone's hard work (and the __FreeBSD_version bump!).

-Boris