FreeBSD 10 and zfsd
Allan Jude
allanjude at freebsd.org
Mon Jun 23 19:25:10 UTC 2014
On 2014-06-23 12:39, Alan Somers wrote:
> The projects/zfsd project branch is up to date. Merging it to CURRENT
> is blocked on these tasks.
>
> 1) (The biggie) We must resolve the issue with multiple geom opens.
> Geom tries to prevent any two consumers from simultaneously opening
> the same provider. This is why, for example, you can't do dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 if your ada0 has a mounted file system.
> However, ZFS internally opens spare devices multiple times. The only
> way that geom will allow that is if ZFS opens devices non-exclusively.
> That means that you will lose your protection. Fixing this correctly
> requires deep changes to ZFS to remove the multiple opens.
>
> 2) Need to merge in zfsd's functional tests. I'm currently working on
> this issue as time allows.
>
> 3) It needs a manpage.
I can help with a man page. Is there an outline or readme to start from?
>
> 4) Various bug fixes need to be merged to the kernel and to LibZFS.
> Coordinating with Illumos makes that process slow. will@ is working
> on it as time allows.
>
> 5) libdevctl needs to be made private
>
> 6) The sequential packet feature added to devd in the zfsd project
> branch at revision r266519 must be merged to head. It's currently
> waiting for review from imp@ and ian at .
>
> For TrueNAS, I believe that delphij@ merged an older version of zfsd
> from the project branch.
>
> -Alan
>
--
Allan Jude
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