Re: FreeBSD 10 and zfsd

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013, at 12:40, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2013-10-10 13:26, Alan Somers wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd_at_allanjude.com> wrote:
> >> 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_at_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?
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> >> 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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> > Due to popular demand, I have located a round toit.  I'm currently
> > working on rebasing the zfsd project branch to head, after which I'll
> > push SpectraLogic's recent changes.
> See, all you have to do is complain loudly enough :p
> 

I was sad more than anything. I'd been waiting for zfsd since the
project was announced. :-) I'm glad to know we won't have to wait until
11.0.