Hi, On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:41, Eric Schrock wrote: > Folks - > > Several people have vocalized interest in porting ZFS to operating > systems other than solaris. While our 'mentoring' bandwidth may be > small, I am hoping to create a common forum where people could share > their experiences and ideas about how to effectively port ZFS and ease > the ongoing maintenance burden. To that end, I started with this page: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/
Thank you, that page was very helpful. I wasn't aware that the SPA and the DMU could easily be run in userspace - that will surely allow me to use more "pristine" ZFS code. This was enough to change my approach to the project I'm proposing. > > Which gives some guidelines about what I think would be a reasonable way > of attacking a port of ZFS. While not quite a WiKi, if folks are > actively working a port, feel free to email me (or one of the other ZFS > community leaders) and we'll make you a leader as well so you can edit > this page and share experiences, link to your efforts, etc. Ok, when I have something to contribute, I'll be sure to email you. > If there is enough interest, it may also make sense to create a > discussion forum strictly for detailed questions about ZFS code that may > not interest the community at large. If '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' were > created, would this be beneficial to anyone? Well, I'd use it. ;-) > - Eric > > -- > Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development > http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
