FreeBSD 10 and zfsd

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 10 16:13:17 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013, at 10:24, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot spares are
> > not possible on FreeBSD.
> > I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would be
> > included in FreeBSD 10.
> >
> > Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be used?
> 
> zfsd is currently not in FreeBSD/head and won't make it into 10, but
> you can still get the source code from its project branch.  It's being
> used in production by at least two companies.
> 

So FreeBSD is going to have inferior ZFS management compared to
Solaris/Illumos/etc for another 2+ years? Why are things like this
allowed to miss releases?


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