OpenZFS?

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
The ZFS bits in NetBSD seem old, and it also seems that they don't quite 100% work. Now, it seems OpenZFS is the locus of ZFS activity, and that's how FreeBSD's ZFS code is maintained: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page Thus, it seems that it would be good to extend OpenZFS to support NetBSD

Re: OpenZFS?

2014-12-28 Thread Justin Cormack
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > The ZFS bits in NetBSD seem old, and it also seems that they don't quite > 100% work. > > Now, it seems OpenZFS is the locus of ZFS activity, and that's how > FreeBSD's ZFS code is maintained: > > http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page > > Thus

disk driver interface

2014-12-28 Thread Michael van Elst
Currently NetBSD has three programming interfaces to determine disk geometry from userland. - ioctl DIOCGDINFO. The traditional interface, limited to 32bit numbers or disks < 2TB because its data structure corresponds to the binary on-disk structure. - the "get-properties" command to the drv