Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

[Eric Anderson]

Michael Vince wrote:
> pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Hello;
>>
>> DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in 
>> FreeBSD too,
>> but AFAICT no one has started.
>>
>> Here is an interesting link:
>>
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Pedro.
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  
>>
> Since this is a project that would benefit just about anyone using 
> FreeBSD, it would be good to see a project like this get funding or do a 
> fund raise.
> As a summer of code project I would assume this would be to difficult of 
> a project to for anyone but those of a fair amount of experience?
> 
> Mike


ZFS surely is cool, but I'm not sure how much it benefits FreeBSD 
compared to something like journaling, or adding features to our 
existing filesystem, or even write support for one of the already ported 
read-only filesystems we have (like XFS, or reiserfs).


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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