ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:57:00AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD
> operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be
> available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature.
> 
> Commit log:
> 
>   Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems.
>   
>   ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code
>   in under CDDL license.
>   
>   I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of
>   software.
>   
>   Supported by:	Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/)
>   Supported by:	The FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/)
>   Supported by:	Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/)
> 
> Limitations.
> 
>   Currently ZFS is only compiled as kernel module and is only available
>   for i386 architecture. Amd64 should be available very soon, the other
>   archs will come later, as we implement needed atomic operations.
> 
> Missing functionality.
> 
>   - We don't have iSCSI target daemon in the tree, so sharing ZVOLs via
>     iSCSI is also not supported at this point. This should be fixed in
>     the future, we may also add support for sharing ZVOLs over ggate.
>   - There is no support for ACLs and extended attributes.
>   - There is no support for booting off of ZFS file system.
> 
> Other than that, ZFS should be fully-functional.
> 
> Enjoy!

Give yourself a pat on the back :)

Kris
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