FreeBSD Developers, We're pleased to make available images allowing testing of FreeBSD using ZFS on Linux. During this development cycle, the ZoL code has been made portable, and available in the ports tree as sysutils/zol and sysutils/zol-kmod, for userland/kernel bits respectively. While some have used these for testing, we felt it necessary to generate some installation images which are an easier method of getting up and started using ZoL. These images are built against FreeBSD 12-stable and 13-HEAD and will install a world / kernel with the base system ZFS disabled and the sysutils/zol ports pre-installed. It is possible to these with both UFS or ZFS on root, and we're looking for feedback on any stability issues or other regressions that you see vs the legacy ZFS in base. FreeBSD 12-Stable https://pkg.trueos.org/iso/freebsd12-zol/ FreeBSD HEAD https://pkg.trueos.org/iso/freebsd13-zol/ Please report issues on our GitHub tracker at: https://github.com/zfsonfreebsd/ZoF Thanks and happy testing! -- Kris Moore Vice President of Engineering iXsystems, Inc Ph: (408) 943-4100 Ph: (408) 943-4101 The Groundbreaking TrueNAS M-Series - Enterprise Storage & Servers Driven By Open Source
On 19/04/2019 12:46, kris at ixsystems.com wrote:> FreeBSD Developers, > > > > We're pleased to make available images allowing testing of FreeBSD using ZFS > on Linux. During this development cycle, the ZoL code has been made > portable, and available in the ports tree as sysutils/zol and > sysutils/zol-kmod, for userland/kernel bits respectively. While some have > used these for testing, we felt it necessary to generate some installation > images which are an easier method of getting up and started using ZoL. These > images are built against FreeBSD 12-stable and 13-HEAD and will install a > world / kernel with the base system ZFS disabled and the sysutils/zol ports > pre-installed.Ah, this is excellent, thankyou for all the work on this. A question though - is the intnet to keep these as ports, or will the ZoL code be merged back into the base, replacing the existing ZFS implementation? cheers, -pete. [who will give this a test next week if he can]