Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
On 1 September 2012 19:02, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name : zfs-linux
> Version : 0.6.0
> Upstream Author : Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
> * URL : http://zfsonlinux.org/
> * License : CDDL
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem.
>
> ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally
> developed for Solaris. It provides a number of advanced features like
> snapshots, clones, live integrity checksums, deduplication, compression
> and much more. The port to the Linux kernel includes a functional and
> stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL and ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL).
> .
> This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS
> for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel
> modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages
> are upgraded.
> .
> This package also contains the user space utilities needed to manage ZFS.
>
If packaged properly, I am sure many people will find this useful.
The missing revisions / functionality are:
29 RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator.
30 ZFS encryption.
31 improved 'zfs list' performance.
32 One MB block support
33 Improved share support
I do have (personal?!) concerns about the ZFS future. After the zpool
version 28, no more source code was release by oracle (please correct
me if I am wrong). Are the specs released for the later zpool
versions? As it is now, all implementations are incomplete in
comparison with Oracle's implementation. And if no specs are
available, the open source / linux implementations are going to become
more and more incomplete in the future.
What is the status on trademarks? Can we use the name "zfs"? For
example, drdb trademark is actively being enforced.
While the future of alternative zfs implementations does look gloom, I
do think zfs (-like) implementations would be useful on linux and in
debian.
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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