Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

[Rick C. Petty]

[Moving this discussion to freebsd-fs, since it's more appropriate there]


On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:41:33AM +0200, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid adding write support to XFS or reiserfs is not easy, and then
> there's the license issue. ZFS might not have the best license either but we
> can work with it. Apple's updated HFS license is also something that could be
> worked with but Apple is interested in ZFS too so it must have something
> interesting ;-).

Speaking of HFS, I'm disappointed that this hasn't been imported or at
least looked at lately.  I'd been using the method posted at:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/

since early 2003, but due the major VFS changes in 6.0, I haven't been able
to compile it or even get my hacks working.  I'm not aware of the updated
HFS license, but I know the code is available at:

	http://cvs.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/xnu/bsd/

My attempts at getting both HFS and AFS (ports/arla) working in 6.0 & 6.1
have been futile.  Due to the lack of good documentation of the VFS
subsystem (especially in the areas of the 6.x removals) and my continued
frustrations trying to port both file systems, I've given up.  Maybe if I
magically find time this summer...

Anyone else working on these?  They should be easier/quicker to fix than
trying to port ZFS, but the more FS support, the better!

-- Rick C. Petty