Re: Porting ZFS file system to FreeBSD.

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:54:48 +0200
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:49:11AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I started porting the ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system.
> [...]
> 
> Just a quick note about progress in my work. I needed slow down a bit,
> but:
> 
> All file system operations seems to work. The only exception are
> operations needed for mmap(2) to work. Bascially file system works quite
> stable even under heavy load. I've problem with two assertions I'm
> hitting when running some heavy regression tests.
> 
> I've spend a couple of days fighting with snapshots. To be able to
> implement them I needed to port GFS from Solaris (Generic
> pseudo-filesystem). Now, snapshots (and clones) seems to work just fine.
> 
> Some other minor bits like zpool import/export, etc. now also work.
> 
> File system is not yet marked as MPSAFE (it still operates under the
> Giant lock).

And one more very important thing! The code is not yet ready for testing
by others, so please don't ask for patches. When the code will be ready
I'll publish them.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd_at_FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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