Re: [HEADS UP] zfs import

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi Adam,

What is the license of the code and what impact will it have on the
redistribution of NetBSD ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud

ps: I thought we didn't want CDDL code in the tree ?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Adam Hamsik<haaaad%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have imported zfs source tree into the NetBSD base system today.
> Kernel part needs some fixes which needs proper review and I will
> commit them later this weekend, but otherwise zfs should compile.
>
> I was able to build kernel on zfs file sytem with needed kernel patches.
> Everyone should stay calm and not try to use/compile zfs for now I will
> sent another HEADS UP when zfs reach state where it can be compiled and
> used.
>
> There are these know issues:
>
> 1) Support for openat/fstatat syscalls.
> 2) getnewvnode locking against myself panic when reclaiming vnodes
> 3) Replace solaris taskq with our workqueue which doesn't need to alloc
>   anything during work.
> 4) Investigate problems with NO_WAIT allocations.
>
> P.S I would like to thank you to Andrew Doran for his great help with this
> project.
>    I would like to say thank you to Oliver Gould who started this port long
> time ago.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam.
>
>