ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

Rong-en Fan grafan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 06:35:26 UTC 2007


On 4/10/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:17:16AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > >Limitations.
> > >
> > >  Currently ZFS is only compiled as kernel module and is only available
> > >  for i386 architecture. Amd64 should be available very soon, the other
> > >  archs will come later, as we implement needed atomic operations.
> > >
> > >Missing functionality.
> > >
> > >  - We don't have iSCSI target daemon in the tree, so sharing ZVOLs via
> > >    iSCSI is also not supported at this point. This should be fixed in
> > >    the future, we may also add support for sharing ZVOLs over ggate.
> > >  - There is no support for ACLs and extended attributes.
> > >  - There is no support for booting off of ZFS file system.
> > >
> > >Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional.
> >
> > Hi, Pawel. Thanks for the great work!
> >
> > 1. I have an yesterday's CURRENT and I get a `kmem_map too small`
> > panic when try to copy /usr/src to ZFS partition with enabled
> > compression. (I have 512M of RAM)
>
> See discussion in many other emails (e.g. mine).  Also cvs update.
>
> > 2. I've tried snapshots. Seems that all work good. I have one
> > question: .zfs directory should be invisible? I can `cd .zfs`
> > and see it's content, but may be .zfs should be visible like
> > an ufs's .snap?
>
> I think this is controlled by the 'snapdir' property, see p80 of the
> admin guide.

Isn't that default 'hidden'  ?

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

>
> Kris
>
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