Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-15 Thread Brad Spencer
m...@netbsd.org writes: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:12:23PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: >> I was thinking that if ZFS were in the kernel, it might be easier to >> get ZFS root. > > > You don't need to build ZFS into the kernel to boot it as a root mount > (same for FFS). The code to load

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-15 Thread maya
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:12:23PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > I was thinking that if ZFS were in the kernel, it might be easier to > get ZFS root. You don't need to build ZFS into the kernel to boot it as a root mount (same for FFS). The code to load modules from the bootloader already

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-11 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:12:23PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > I was thinking that if ZFS were in the kernel, it might be easier to > get ZFS root. > then booting from a snapshot would be super awesome. The solaris alternate boot environments using zfs snapshots makes updating safe and

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Troxel
Chavdar Ivanov writes: >> Perhaps true, but if the module scheme works for normal cases, little is >> gained for NetBDS to distribute a kernel like that, and it adds >> complexity thinking about licenses. > > Of course. > > I was thinking that if ZFS were in the kernel, it might be easier to >

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 21:07, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Chavdar Ivanov writes: > > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 17:19, Martin Husemann wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > >> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:46:46 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: > >> > > ZFS has been

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Greg Troxel
Chavdar Ivanov writes: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 17:19, Martin Husemann wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: >> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:46:46 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: >> > > ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA. >> > >> > On the same topic, is there a

Tested a bunch of ZFS with 9.0_BETA [was Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA]

2019-08-10 Thread Brad Spencer
My $DAYJOB puts me in contact with ZFS on SmartOS (Joyent private cloud) and a T4 Sparc with ZFS, so I was quite pleased to hear that ZFS on NetBSD had made progress. Nearly everything I tried with ZFS on NetBSD 9.0_BETA worked as expected. I did the following: 1) Made and destroyed raidz and

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 17:19, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:46:46 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: > > > ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA. > > > > On the same topic, is there a perspective for > > > > file-system ZFS

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:46:46 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: > > ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA. > > On the same topic, is there a perspective for > > file-system ZFS # Solaris ZFS > > (i.e. a monolithic, non-module

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-10 Thread Hauke Fath
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:46:46 +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: > ZFS has been updated for 9.0_BETA. On the same topic, is there a perspective for file-system ZFS # Solaris ZFS (i.e. a monolithic, non-module kernel)? Cheerio, hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-09 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
mountpoint=/home z/home > > > > > > This is all on 9.99.something, BTW, but near enough to 9.0_BETA > > > > > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 10:55, Ron Georgia wrote: > > >> > > >> How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-09 Thread Benny Siegert
> > > > This is all on 9.99.something, BTW, but near enough to 9.0_BETA > > > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 10:55, Ron Georgia wrote: > >> > >> How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then > >&g

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-09 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
55, Ron Georgia wrote: >> >> How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then symlink >> the /home -> /tank/home? >> >> >> >> From: Alistair Crooks >> Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM >> To: Ronald Georgia >

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Alistair Crooks
ate: *Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM > *To: *Ronald Georgia > *Cc: *Marc Baudoin , NetBSD Users < > netbsd-users@netbsd.org> > *Subject: *Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA > > > > > > > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:52, Ronald Georgia wrote: > > S

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Ron Georgia
How did you move your home directory? Did you create /tank/home then symlink the /home -> /tank/home? From: Alistair Crooks Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 11:53 AM To: Ronald Georgia Cc: Marc Baudoin , NetBSD Users Subject: Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA On Thu, 8 Aug 2

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:52, Ronald Georgia wrote: > 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

Subject: Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread D. Ebdrup
>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 >> wrote: >>Hi, >> >>ZFS has been

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Ronald Georgia
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 wrote: > Hi, > > ZFS has been updated for

State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-08 Thread Marc Baudoin
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?