Subject: Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

["D. Ebdrup" <debdrup%gmail.com@localhost>]

>Same here. I have two 9BETA machines using zfs. Both have a mirrored pool of two disks. So far things seem to be working. This weekend I will be testing snapshots and send/receive.

>BTW, nice job with zfs.

>>On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:47 AM Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA.  I've tried it and it seems
>>usable (I couldn't make it work in 8.0 so it's a real progress).
>>Now I'd like to know what's its state in 9.0_BETA (still
>>experimental, quite stable, production ready --- might be too
>>early) and what's the goal for the future?
>>
>>Thanks.
Sorry if this mail is a bit weirdly formatted, I only received notice
of this thread after, so I'm doing my best to get it into the existing
thread.

I had the opportunity to test ZFS on sparc64 for a fortnight a while
ago and couldn't make it suddenly burst into flame to put it, and it
seemed to do everything I tested including when I threw in the kitchen
sink and ran some benchmarks (can't really speak as to the speed
itself, as it was old hardware not really capable of any notable
fasts/second).
As far as I've been able to spot, the code import touches none of the
code paths which would break the central features of ZFS, so it seems
like an obvious time for someone with better testing facilities to run
it for an extended period of time.

Unfortunately because of various things which I shan't get into here,
I don't really remember _how_ I got it working. :(

That being said, chs@ and hannken@ deserve a serious amount of credit
for their work in getting it all situated!

Daniel Ebdrup aka. D. Ebdrup.