HEADS UP: ZFS v28 merged to 8-STABLE

[C. P. Ghost]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Marius Strobl
<marius at alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0200, 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.
>
> Beware that the compatibility layer is known broken on big-endian
> architectures, i.e. powerpc64 and sparc64.

Thanks for the heads-up! I was just about to update a couple of sparc64
machines here. Fortunately, the only ZFS file systems there are external
file systems (no /, /usr, /var etc...), so it's gonna be painless, I suppose.
But what about other layouts? Does it mean that an installkernel, reboot,
and installworld won't work?

>> 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!
>
> Marius

Thanks,
-cpghost.

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