ZFS v28 is ready for wider testing.

[Zhu Han]

That's cool. Thank you for your work on it.

best regards,
hanzhu


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'd like to give you ZFS v28 for testing. If you are neither brave nor
> mad, you can stop here.
>
> The patchset is very experimental. It can eat your cookie and hurt your
> teddy bear, so be warned. Don't try it for anything except testing.
>
> This patchset is also a message we, as the FreeBSD project, would like
> to send to our users: Eventhough OpenSolaris is dead, the ZFS file
> system is going to stay in FreeBSD. At this point we have quite a few
> developers involved in ZFS on FreeBSD as well as serveral companies.
> We are also looking forward to work with IllumOS.
>
> So, what this new ZFS brings?
>
> - Data deduplication. Read more here:
>
>        http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup
>
> - Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3). Read more here:
>
>        http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2009/07/21/triple-parity-raid-z/
>
> - zfs diff. Read more here:
>
>
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/105/20100328_tim.haley
>
> - zpool split. Read more here:
>
>
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/511/20090924_mark.musante
>
> - Snapshot holds. Read more here:
>
>
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/297/20090511_chris.kirby
>
> - zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier
>  transaction group.
>
> - Possibility to import pool in read-only mode.
>
> And much, much more, including plenty of preformance improvements and bug
> fixes.
>
> So test whatever you can and report back. Look for regressions, strange
> behaviour, missing features, deadlocks, livelocks, preformance
> degradation, etc.
>
> The boot code is not updated at all, so booting off of ZFS doesn't
> currently work.
>
> The patch is against today's FreeBSD HEAD.
>
> The patch enables (in sys/modules/zfs/Makefile) ZFS internal debugging,
> please don't turn it off. Also, compile your kernel with the following
> options:
>
>        options         KDB
>        options         DDB
>        options         INVARIANTS
>        options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT
>        options         WITNESS
>        options         WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
>        options         DEBUG_LOCKS
>        options         DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS
>
> Ignore all the LOR (Lock Order Reversal) reports from WITNESS. There will
> be plenty of those, and you'll desperately want to report them, but please
> don't.
>
> The best way to report a problem is to answer to this e-mail with as short
> as possible procedure of how to reproduce it and debugging info. I'd
> prefer textdump if possible. Below you can find quick procedure how to
> setup textdumps:
>
>        Choose spare/swap disk/partition in your system, let's say it is
>        /dev/ad0s1b.
>
>        Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
>
>                /dev/ad0s1b     none    swap    sw      0       0
>
>        Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
>
>                ddb_enable="YES"
>
>        Run the following commands:
>
>                # /etc/rc.d/swap1 start
>                # /etc/rc.d/dumpon start
>                # /etc/rc.d/ddb start
>
>        This will setup swap, mark it as dump device and setup some DDB
>        scripts. Or you can just reboot.
>
>        Now when your system panic or deadlock, enter DDB and call the
>        following command:
>
>                ddb> run kdb.enter.panic
>
>        It will execute all the commands I need, dump them in text format to
>        your swap device and reboot machine.
>
>        After the reboot, you should find textdump.tar.0 file in /var/crash/
>        directory. This is the debug info I need.
>
> End of textdumps procedure.
>
> Ok, now that I know you read everything carefully, here is the patch:
>
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfs_20100831.patch.bz2<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Epjd/patches/zfs_20100831.patch.bz2>
>
> Good luck! >:>
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
> pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
>