ZFS v22

[krad]

2009/12/8 Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org>

> On 2009-Dec-07 15:44:46 +0000, krad <kraduk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >longer than what? Are there any known issues? After all there is another
> >killer feature in there.
>
> Presumably you are referring to dedup - this is _very_ new and is not
> ready for production use.  There have been several problems discussed
> in the zfs-discuss lists (and the latest OpenSolaris release was re-
> rolled to correct one of them).  The latest problem I saw was unkillable
> processes.
>
> The version of ZFS in FreeBSD will be moved forward but it will never
> reach the bleeding edge of OpenSolaris.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>

I realise all that I just wondered if it was on the horizon. We are doing
quite a lot of testing of dedup at work for our opensolaris archivers. Going
fairly well at the moment. However we aren't looking at making it live on
selected systems until at least end Jan. That's assuming all goes well.