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"Big ZFS update" expected? :)

I've just seen a commit message from Pawel:

Author: pjd
Date: Mon Nov 17 20:11:53 2008
New Revision: 185027
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185027

Log:
Increase the limit for the Big ZFS Update.

Modified:
svnadmin/conf/sizelimit.conf

Modified: svnadmin/conf/sizelimit.conf
==============================================================================
--- svnadmin/conf/sizelimit.conf Mon Nov 17 19:00:36 2008 (r185026)
+++ svnadmin/conf/sizelimit.conf Mon Nov 17 20:11:53 2008 (r185027)
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
#grog
#kan
lstewart
+pjd 10485760

It looks like a *huge* drop is to be expected :)

If I'm interpreting this correctly, it looks like a close to 10 MB patch is about to go in! To put this in perspective, the FreeBSD 7.0 kernel is ~120 MB of source code, which makes this > 8% of the kernel (of course, the patch also contains userland parts so it's not a very useful comparison).

The new ZFS code should bring in stability improvements and the latest version of ZFS (zpool) - probably 14 (previous version was 6).

No, this will not go into 7.1, but it will be available in 8.0 and maybe even 7.2.

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