On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Raphael S Carvalho < raphael.sc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I send the below mail to Brian Behlendorf, but everyone is welcome to help > me =) > I will write a read-only ZFS driver, and I'm looking for a > specification that focus on the on-disk structure of a ZFS partition. > There's a link to the (outdated) ZFS on disk spec on the OpenZFS website: http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Developer_resources What platform will you write your read-only driver for? > > If anyone is aware of a *read-link* ZFS driver whose source code is > open, then it would be awesome. > All the ZFS code is open source, the bulk of it under the CDDL. There is also a GPL-ed GRUB module. I think there's also a different GRUB module for GRUB2, and also a boot loader module for FreeBSD. > If there is also a tool that dumps the ZFS structure (e.g. super > block) and inodes, then it would be amazing =) > zdb does exactly this. > By the way, I am using Linux, and I'm still looking for a good environment. > Setting up a good environment isn't an easy task, but ZFS on Linux > seems to be the right place to get started with. > > Thanks in advance. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Raphael S Carvalho <raphael.sc...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:39 AM > Subject: ZFS driver - Need your help ;) - Specification > To: behlendo...@llnl.gov > > > Hi, I am about to write a read-only driver for ZFS, and I found your > project very useful and needed to my environment. > > As you ported ZFS to run natively on Linux, I think you could help me > with a good specification about the ZFS on-disk structure. Which one > did you use while working on it? > > Many of them have info that aren't too useful for those writing > drivers as an example. > I would appreciate any feedback on the matter. > > Regards, > Raphael S. Carvalho. > > > -- > Raphael S. Carvalho > _______________________________________________ > developer mailing list > developer@open-zfs.org > http://lists.open-zfs.org/mailman/listinfo/developer >
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