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21-Mar-2013 |
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Merge libzfs_core branch: includes MFV 238590, 238592, 247580
MFV 238590, 238592: In the first zfs ioctl restructuring phase, the libzfs_core library was introduced. It is a new thin library that wraps around kernel ioctl's. The idea is to provide a forward-compatible way of dealing with new features. Arguments are passed in nvlists and not random zfs_cmd fields, new-style ioctls are logged to pool history using a new method of history logging.
http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2012/01/17/the-future-of-libzfs/
MFV 247580 [1]: To address issues of several deadlocks and race conditions the locking code around dsl_dataset was rewritten and the interface to synctasks was changed.
User-Visible Changes: "zfs snapshot" can create more arbitrary snapshots at once (atomically) "zfs destroy" destroys multiple snapshots at once "zfs recv" has improved performance
Backward Compatibility: I have extended the compatibility layer to support full backward compatibility by remapping or rewriting the responsible ioctl arguments. Old utilities are fully supported by the new kernel module.
Forward Compatibility: New utilities work with old kernels with the following restrictions: - creating, destroying, holding and releasing of multiple snapshots at once is not supported, this includes recursive (-r) commands
Illumos ZFS issues: 2882 implement libzfs_core 2900 "zfs snapshot" should be able to create multiple, arbitrary snapshots at once 3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring
References: https://www.illumos.org/issues/2882 https://www.illumos.org/issues/2900 https://www.illumos.org/issues/3464 [1]
MFC after: 1 month Sponsored by: Hybrid Logic Inc. [1]
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17-Nov-2008 |
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Update ZFS from version 6 to 13 and bring some FreeBSD-specific changes.
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache. Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one can select from one of three failure modes: - panic - panic on write error - wait - wait for disk to reappear - continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
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