On 20/12/2010 11:03, Deano wrote:
Hi,
Which brings up an interesting question...
IF it were fixed in for example illumos or freebsd is there a plan for how
to handle possible incompatible zfs implementations?
Currently the basic version numbering only works as it implies only one
stream of development, now with multiple possible stream does ZFS need to
move to a feature bit system or are we going to have to have forks or
multiple incompatible versions?
Thanks,
Deano
Changes to the resilvering implementation don't necessarily require
changes to the on disk format (although they could). Of course, there
might be an issue moving a pool mid-resilver from one implementation to
another.
With arguably considerably more ZFS expertise outside Oracle than in,
there's a good chance the community will get to a fix first. It would
then be interesting to see whether NIH prevails, or perhaps even a new
spirit of "share and share alike".
"You may say I'm a dreamer ..."
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