Re: When will ZFS become stable?

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From: Brooks Davis
Date: Friday, January 4, 2008 - 11:12 am

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:58:32PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:

I'm not sure any file system we support meets that criteria...


I saw those crashes early one, but that's 90% of what the mirror server
I'm running does and I'm not seeing them any more.  I won't argue
everything is fixed, but ZFS seems much more stable than it was.


My understanding is that ZFS will never be a great choice on any 32-bit
architecture without major changes Sun probably isn't interested in
making.  I think many of the problems people are reporting stem from
that.


I don't think anyone is naive enough to say everything will be perfect
by any given date.  Reality doesn't work that way.  People looking to
deploy ZFS now will need to tolerate a certain amount of risk since it's
never been part of a FreeBSD release (and it's still quite new even in
Solaris).  Issues being unfixable in 7.x are one of those risks, but
that's always the case.

-- Brooks
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When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Fri Jan 4, 4:42 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Brooks Davis, (Fri Jan 4, 9:33 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Fri Jan 4, 10:58 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Brooks Davis, (Fri Jan 4, 11:12 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Peter Schuller, (Sun Jan 6, 2:51 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 5:58 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 6:07 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Maciej Suszko, (Sun Jan 6, 6:46 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 6:50 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 7:27 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 7:51 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 8:08 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Sun Jan 6, 8:36 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 8:46 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Henri Hennebert, (Sun Jan 6, 8:48 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 9:03 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Maciej Suszko, (Sun Jan 6, 9:05 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 9:22 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 9:45 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Henri Hennebert, (Sun Jan 6, 9:47 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 9:47 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Sun Jan 6, 10:08 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 10:12 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 10:13 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 10:20 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 10:20 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 10:28 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 10:34 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 10:36 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 10:43 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 11:00 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 11:09 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 11:10 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Gary Corcoran, (Sun Jan 6, 11:48 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 11:49 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Maciej Suszko, (Sun Jan 6, 12:56 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Claus Guttesen, (Sun Jan 6, 1:00 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Vadim Goncharov, (Sun Jan 6, 1:56 pm)
ZFS honesty, Scott Long, (Sun Jan 6, 2:00 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 2:32 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Kris Kennaway, (Sun Jan 6, 2:42 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Scott Long, (Sun Jan 6, 2:54 pm)
Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Maxim Sobolev, (Sun Jan 6, 2:56 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, 韓家標 Bill Hacker, (Sun Jan 6, 3:20 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, 韓家標 Bill Hacker, (Sun Jan 6, 3:32 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 3:33 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Sun Jan 6, 3:33 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 3:43 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 3:45 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, 韓家標 Bill Hacker, (Sun Jan 6, 3:58 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Adam McDougall, (Sun Jan 6, 4:32 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Erich Dollansky, (Sun Jan 6, 4:39 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Alexandre "Sunny" Ko ..., (Sun Jan 6, 5:03 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Maxim Sobolev, (Sun Jan 6, 5:58 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Ivan Voras, (Sun Jan 6, 6:16 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, 韓家標 Bill Hacker, (Sun Jan 6, 7:29 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Christian Walther, (Mon Jan 7, 12:10 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Igor Mozolevsky, (Mon Jan 7, 1:20 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Christian Walther, (Mon Jan 7, 1:51 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, (Mon Jan 7, 2:59 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Mon Jan 7, 3:30 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Igor Mozolevsky, (Mon Jan 7, 6:17 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Dag-Erling Smørgrav, (Mon Jan 7, 7:04 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Mon Jan 7, 7:37 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Joao Barros, (Mon Jan 7, 7:52 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Vadim Goncharov, (Mon Jan 7, 8:16 am)
Re: ZFS honesty, Alexandre Biancalana, (Mon Jan 7, 8:23 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Bernd Walter, (Mon Jan 7, 8:36 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Mon Jan 7, 8:39 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Peter Schuller, (Mon Jan 7, 10:06 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Andrew Thompson, (Mon Jan 7, 1:46 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Alexander Kabaev, (Mon Jan 7, 3:47 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Vadim Goncharov, (Mon Jan 7, 4:28 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Mon Jan 7, 4:39 pm)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, David Taylor, (Tue Jan 8, 12:56 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Tue Jan 8, 2:19 am)
Re: Should we simply disallow ZFS on FreeBSD/i386?, Oliver Fromme, (Tue Jan 8, 10:51 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Oliver Fromme, (Tue Jan 8, 10:58 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Steve Kargl, (Tue Jan 8, 10:59 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Dag-Erling Smørgrav, (Tue Jan 8, 11:24 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Vadim Goncharov, (Tue Jan 8, 11:58 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Robert Watson, (Tue Jan 8, 12:22 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Ivan Voras, (Tue Jan 8, 4:16 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Dan Nelson, (Tue Jan 8, 10:45 pm)
Re: ZFS honesty, Andrew Gallatin, (Wed Jan 9, 6:23 am)
Re: ZFS honesty, Alexandre "Sunny" Ko ..., (Wed Jan 9, 7:55 am)
Re: ZFS honesty, Andrew Gallatin, (Wed Jan 9, 8:36 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Scot Hetzel, (Wed Jan 9, 10:39 am)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Mark Powell, (Sat Jan 12, 2:45 pm)
Re: When will ZFS become stable?, Darren Reed, (Tue Jan 22, 8:09 am)