Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:24:37 -0400 From: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 and zfsd Message-ID: <5256E2D5.4060101@allanjude.com> In-Reply-To: <1381421583.19140.32451849.084D8E32@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <5256B761.4050301@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2i5hxdp8=4sHQgu2MOjpv9jqd6D7LV-a8y7S6cuCBgYuw@mail.gmail.com> <1381421583.19140.32451849.084D8E32@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 2013-10-10 12:13, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013, at 10:24, Alan Somers wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> When i started using ZFS on FreeBSD I quickly found out that hot spares are >>> not possible on FreeBSD. >>> I was told that with zfsd it should be possible and that it would be >>> included in FreeBSD 10. >>> >>> Is there some info about the zfsd function and how it could be used? >> zfsd is currently not in FreeBSD/head and won't make it into 10, but >> you can still get the source code from its project branch. It's being >> used in production by at least two companies. >> > So FreeBSD is going to have inferior ZFS management compared to > Solaris/Illumos/etc for another 2+ years? Why are things like this > allowed to miss releases? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ZFSd was a big topic of discussion at the EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit (3 weeks ago). There is a lot of collaboration going on, to bring in some work done by vendors like SpectraLogics. This is the type of feature that can be assed in 10.1, it won't have to wait for 11. You can see Robert Watsons talk "How FreeBSD Works" to see why releases are based on date, rather than on feature completion (because things are never "finished") -- Allan Jude
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