(Meant to include https://zgrep.org/zfs.html as my citation there but forgot I hadn't put it in yet. Whoops.)
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:36 AM Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > The obvious pain points from my perspective would be the feature flag > disparities between platforms, and how they bite people who get asked > to try reproducing problems on other platforms. (Two examples that > stick in my mind - multi_vdev_crash_dump unavailable on ZoL for a long > time, and now the worse inverse of large_dnode only on ZoL.) > > In particular, when ZoL 0.8.x comes out, we'll have at least 5 feature > flags that no other platform supports, one of which is not > RO-compatible. [1] (This is great for ZoL importing things from other > platforms, less so the reverse.) > > I'd argue that it'd be nice to have something like zpool create -X > compat=123 which restricts the feature flag set to known subsets that > most/all platforms supported at that point, without having to remember > the enumeration of flags that won't shoot you in the foot as of $DATE. > (Yes, pool creation is an uncommon event for most, but IMO the default > behavior should not be to end up with a pool no other platform can > import.) > > But that's just me having had to explain to many people why their pool > wouldn't import elsewhere when a bug on one platform bit them and they > wanted to try another. > > - Rich > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:36 AM Igor Kozhukhov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > could you please let me know : what are problems with ZFS on Linux, > > FreeBDS, OSX and others ports? > > > > For example: > > on Linux we have problems with poweroff - pool can be unavailable and need > > some dance for restore it (with lustre node, etc) > > > > what are problems with ithers? > > > > best regards, > > -Igor > > ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1ce8db6589272d89-Mc4f6e7f1fdd858defdb3d5b0 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
