Re: status of ZFS?

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:57:37PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:55 PM,  <u-6hol%aetey.se@localhost> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I made some effort to learn the current status of ZFS usability on
> > NetBSD. There did not seem to have been any discussions arount the topic
> > for the last couple of years. May be there is some hidden knowledge
> > available via this list?
> ...
> > My regrettable conclusion is that ZFS as-is on NetBSD does not provide
> > any visible advantages compared to other file systems.
> >
> > To be fair, presumably it does the checksum protection (which no other
> > fs provides on NetBSD) but the important virtues like scrub and snapshots
> > do not seem to have been made operational.
> >
> > Can anybody on the list shed more light on the state of affairs
> > and on the prospect of improving the usability of ZFS?
> 
> I hoped someone else might chime in, but they haven't...
> 
> I think this is a fair summary. I think improving it requires at least
> one person to work on it a fair amount. The good thing is the upstream
> project is very healthy, on illumos, Linux and FreeBSD, and there is a
> lot of experience that is transferable to NetBSD around the pitfalls.

Thanks Justin for the clarification.

(Nice to hear an answer, even if not the one one would prefer)

The remaining problem is how to find and motivate a suitable person.

:(

Hope this happens some day!

Rune