ZFS v28 is ready for wider testing.

[Graham Todd]

On 09/04/10 07:51, jhell wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 13:02, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>
>> Exporting appliances is a bit broken (if you have more than one disk, it
>> will point all disks at the last one from configuration), so I had to
>> edit .ovf file manually to fix this. Maybe I messed something up, but I
>> was able to successfully import it before publishing it.

The VM works great here. Thanks for packaging things up this way Pawel it
facilitates wider testing. I am getting occasional stack backtraces on my
screen when trying certain operations (e.g. zfs diff, truncate -s 200M
testfile, etc.) but no crashes or serious problems. Is there any specific
information or tests you'd like people to do?

Thanks to you and other devs for all your careful work integrating ZFS
into FreeBSD. It seems amazing that the patch for v28 *almost* even
applies to 8-STABLE.

cheers,

>> PS. I waited for so long for decent virtualization software for FreeBSD,
>> and I must say VirtualBox is really great, and free, and open-source
>> Are you reading this, VMWare?

The VirtualBox folks have built a pretty solid product. I am guessing good
virtualization software helps with kernel development? :)

> They will only read it if it comes with a disclaimer and they're license
> attached to the top along with a contract signed by you so when they
> disagree with it they can hand you a pink-slip with they're license
> attached to the top.
> 
> As for VirtualBox, which is a Sun thing, gone Oratorically wrong... How
> long does anyone expect this technology to stick around?.

It seems like a lot of people like it and the source is available under
GPL so, maybe a long time ?