On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I made some effort to learn the current status of ZFS usability on > NetBSD. There did not seem to have been any discussions arount the topic > for the last couple of years. May be there is some hidden knowledge > available via this list? ... > My regrettable conclusion is that ZFS as-is on NetBSD does not provide > any visible advantages compared to other file systems. > > To be fair, presumably it does the checksum protection (which no other > fs provides on NetBSD) but the important virtues like scrub and snapshots > do not seem to have been made operational. > > Can anybody on the list shed more light on the state of affairs > and on the prospect of improving the usability of ZFS?
I hoped someone else might chime in, but they haven't... I think this is a fair summary. I think improving it requires at least one person to work on it a fair amount. The good thing is the upstream project is very healthy, on illumos, Linux and FreeBSD, and there is a lot of experience that is transferable to NetBSD around the pitfalls. Justin
