svn commit: r47607 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Oct 17 21:20:09 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Oct 17 21:20:08 2015
New Revision: 47607
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47607

Log:
  Add report on ZFS code sync with Illumos, from mav

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sat Oct 17 21:08:46 2015	(r47606)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Sat Oct 17 21:20:08 2015	(r47607)
@@ -2355,4 +2355,38 @@
     </sponsor>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>ZFS Code Sync With Latest Illumos</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Alexander</given>
+	  <common>Motin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mav at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The ZFS codebase got significant batch of merges, and is
+	now in sync with latest Illimos.  Among other things, this update
+	includes:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>LZ4 is now a default compression algorithm.</li>
+	<li>Improved prefetch for faster send/receive.</li>
+	<li>Reduced RAM usage by almost 50% for L2ARC.</li>
+	<li>Improved I/O aggregation.</li>
+	<li>Fine-grained checksuming in send/receive stream.</li>
+	<li>Reduced import time for pools with many datasets.</li>
+	<li>Reworked and simplified predictive prefetcher.</li>
+      </ul>
+   
+      <p>The code is committed to &os; head and was recently merged to
+	the stable/10 branch.
+      </p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
