Re: ZFS user library?
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:35 PM, David Magda wrote: Is there something specific you're looking to do? The file system layer of ZFS (the ZPL) is in flux, but there may be other components (e.g., DMU) that may be more stable (the Lustre folks are coding against it in user land). See pages 7 and 8 for the three main layers: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf I see... Not rocket science actually. Just the standard functionality of zfs(8) without resorting to ugly execve and text parsing, something more reliable to list snapshots, etc. Maybe it's a matter of waiting... Borja. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS user library?
On Jun 22, 2009, at 04:00, Borja Marcos wrote: I see... Not rocket science actually. Just the standard functionality of zfs(8) without resorting to ugly execve and text parsing, something more reliable to list snapshots, etc. Maybe it's a matter of waiting... At some point it probably will be stabilized, but it hasn't happened yet. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS user library?
Hello, I was wondering if there are plans to document and keep the ZFS user library as a reasonably stable API. I have been writing an automatic replication program, and it's ugly and clumsy to do it calling a user program. I would rather prefer to use an API, that would make it much easier to retrieve error messages, etc. Borja. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS user library?
I was wondering if there are plans to document and keep the ZFS user library as a reasonably stable API. You really need to ask that on the ZFS lists. Usually Solaris man pages indicate that an API is not stable (assuming) man pages exist. With a few minor exceptions, ZFS in FreeBSD just tracks ZFS in OpenSolaris. Cheers, Kip ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS user library?
On Jun 18, 2009, at 13:21, Kip Macy wrote: I was wondering if there are plans to document and keep the ZFS user library as a reasonably stable API. You really need to ask that on the ZFS lists. Usually Solaris man pages indicate that an API is not stable (assuming) man pages exist. With a few minor exceptions, ZFS in FreeBSD just tracks ZFS in OpenSolaris. As mentioned above, there is a libzfs but the Sun people are still changing things a lot so they can't guarantee compatibility. One example of these changes is the crypto work being done in OpenSolaris: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/phase1/libzfs_api/ Is there something specific you're looking to do? The file system layer of ZFS (the ZPL) is in flux, but there may be other components (e.g., DMU) that may be more stable (the Lustre folks are coding against it in user land). See pages 7 and 8 for the three main layers: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
