The future of ZFS in FreeBSD

[rb at gid.co.uk]

> On 20 Dec 2018, at 11:58, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 20/12/2018 11:03, Bob Bishop wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 19 Dec 2018, at 23:16, Matthew Macy <mmacy at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 15:11 Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Sorry been off for a few weeks so must have missed that, please do prod me
>>>> on again if you don’t see any response to anything not just this. Like many
>>>> others I get so may emails across so many lists it’s more than likely I
>>>> just missed it.
>>>> 
>>>> That said would you say that with the right support we can make progress
>>>> on the this prior to the port? I have to ask as the alternative version has
>>>> been on the cusp for many years now so it’s feels more like a distant
>>>> memory than something that may happen, no disrespect to anyone involved, as
>>>> I know all too well how hard it can be to get something like this over the
>>>> line, especially when people have competing priorities.
>>>> 
>>> I am hoping that it's sufficiently important to FreeBSD ZFS developers that
>>> they'll give the PR the attention it needs so that it can be merged before
>>> summer. My understanding is that it's mostly suffered from neglect. TRIM is
>>> most important to FreeBSD and it already had its own implementation.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5925
>> Please correct me if I’m wrong but this looks a lot less mature than FreeBSD’s existing TRIM support for ZFS which we’ve had in production for six years.
>> 
>> What is the rationale here? I’m concerned that it looks like an opportunity for mighty regressions.
>> 
> This is the case, but overall this solution is thought to be a better approach.
> 
> With anything like this there is always a risk, so we all need a concerted effort to get to one solution.

Not sure what I can contribute, but I can certainly put a box up for testing when there’s something to test.

>     Regards
>     Steve
> 

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Bob Bishop
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