Re: porting ZFS

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:19:02PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> "Neel Sheyal" <neelsheyal%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Reading through the emails, I understand that ZFS is something that
> > the community is interested in.
> > That's good since I would personally like to have ZFS in NetBSD.
> 
> I would personally like to have working LFS, than yet another
> attempt to half-port ZFS.

Certainly you are welcome to fix LFS!  Who is stopping you?

I know a little bit about file system innards, just enough to be dangerous.
Porting ZFS, given the work Andy already did, looks a lot easier to me than
fixing our current LFS code.

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