Hi everyone, This is the final summary of ZFS on Linux integration project.
Looking at the whole project, the overall goal is accomplished with direct and indirect help from different parties - ZoL project, D-I community, and of course my mentor. The ZoL packages for non-root installation is ready at the time around mid-term and uploaded to official archive. spl-linux already accepted, first attempt of zfs-linux is rejected due to packaging detail problems and second attempt is still pending NEW review. And for end-term the d-i media is available but official acceptance still need more work to get around the license questions and d-i policies. As for other goals of this project, zfs-auto-snapshot is ready to upload, but waiting for zfs-linux package being accepted from NEW queue. beadm isn't worked on because the work of d-i image takes a bit longer than expected. The remaining question for d-i official acceptance is the way of how binary zfs kernel module can be handled. Upstream ZoL project said the modules can be distributed legally in binary form but Debian's FTP Team still haven't a decision. Even we have these modules in the archive, it's still a question that D-I team does not accept out-of-tree kernel module due to maintainability problem. It's consensus in ZoL project that if it's easy enough then even some part of the work cannot be integrated officially to make it work out of box, user's manual intervention is still acceptable. So if we can't make it directly in the images, we could let users build them and load at run-time. Thanks again for the help from all people, it's an amazing experience to participate Google Summer of Code and working on a challenging goal, I'll continue to work on it after this project. Best Regards, Aron Xu _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
