On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Marius Strobl <mar...@alchemy.franken.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:53:11PM +0200, Martin Matuska wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have merged ZFS version 28 to 8-STABLE (revision 222741) >> >> New major features: >> >> - data deduplication >> - triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3) >> - zfs diff >> - zpool split >> - snapshot holds >> - zpool import -F. Allows to rewind corrupted pool to earlier >> transaction group >> - possibility to import pool in read-only mode >> >> For updating, there is a compatibility layer so that in the update phase >> most functionality of the new zfs binaries can be used with the old >> kernel module and old zfs binaries with the new kernel module. > > Beware that the compatibility layer is known broken on big-endian > architectures, i.e. powerpc64 and sparc64.
Thanks for the heads-up! I was just about to update a couple of sparc64 machines here. Fortunately, the only ZFS file systems there are external file systems (no /, /usr, /var etc...), so it's gonna be painless, I suppose. But what about other layouts? Does it mean that an installkernel, reboot, and installworld won't work? >> If upgrading your boot pool to version 28, please don't forget to read >> UPDATING and properly update your boot code. >> >> Thanks to everyone working on the ZFS port, especially to >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd) for doing most of the work! > > Marius Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
