ZFS and Deduplication?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:17:15PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> >
> > In the past we broke ABI across ZFS v6 -> v13 update.  This basically
> > means one will have to update kernel and userland at the same time,
> > which would make the upgrade an one-way ticket (otherwise it would be
> > impossible to do operations like zpool import once kernel is upgraded
> > and restarted).  I think, if we plan to MFC it we need to make some
> > compatibility shims instead of using the current approach.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
> 
> is it possible that ZFS v22 will be only FreeBSD 9.x or greater ?

It depends. If no changes are needed to the FreeBSD kernel API/ABI that
will make it impossible to merge to 8.x, chances are new ZFS will appear
in 8.x as well. Of course if 8.x will still be around:)

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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