FreeBSD 10 and zfsd

Outback Dingo outbackdingo at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 21:39:15 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2013-10-10 12:13, Mark Felder wrote:
> >> 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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> > ZFSd was a big topic of discussion at the EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit (3
> > weeks ago). There is a lot of collaboration going on, to bring in some
> > work done by vendors like SpectraLogics. This is the type of feature
> > that can be assed in 10.1, it won't have to wait for 11.
> >
> > You can see Robert Watsons talk "How FreeBSD Works" to see why releases
> > are based on date, rather than on feature completion (because things are
> > never "finished")
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Allan Jude
> >
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> Due to popular demand, I have located a round toit.  I'm currently
> working on rebasing the zfsd project branch to head, after which I'll
> push SpectraLogic's recent changes.
>

Sweeeeeet....... something to play with the next few days and see how
stable it is.


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