Re: porting ZFS

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sep,Thursday 18 2008, at 5:32 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> 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.


From current state of LFS code it is probably not possible to easily  
fix it
and probably full rewrite is needed. Which is probably a lot harder  
than end
ZFS port.

Regards

Adam.