DragonflyBSD porting ZFS

Matthew Dillon (interview link) has in their plan to port ZFS to DragonflyBSD.

This would be huge and absolutely perfect. The ZFS file system is licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), a derivative of the Mozilla Public License, and because of that likely won’t find it’s way into GPL’ed Linux distros (at least that’s what I think; I also think that if you are on Linux, SGI’s XFS is the way to go … 1100%).

Matt Dillon by the way is one of the reasons—by his absence—that FreeBSD 5 sucks as a stable and what I would define as a modern OS. I wish we were still using FreeBSD 4 on a whole bunch of single processor machines with little little drives.

Go man go!

·:· Posted 2 March 2006, 01:38 by Jason Hoffman to Server geek  |  

  1. I’ve been watching DFBSD for a while and I’m quite impressed. Dillon has some pretty interesting things to say regarding the problems within FreeBSD.

    Aren’t you guys using FBSD 6.0 on most machines now? I think at least Cardero is…

    — Jared    2 March 2006, 20:33    #
  2. Ditto on the Matt Dillon sentiment. I’m still running FreeBSD 4.x on every production BSD box I maintain… They’re all single processor of course, but there’s lots of places where you don’t need more than one processor (or multithreading) and it’s hard to beat FreeBSD 4.x’s stability and performance in that scenario.

    I’ve been watching DragonFly for a while as well. It’s going to be interesting to see how well it does now that it’s starting to exit the early developers-only stage.

    As someone with about 25TB of data sitting on XFS filesystems, all I’ll say about XFS is this: How viable is it going to be now that SGI is nearing the end?

    — Mark Mayo    4 March 2006, 00:24    #