Project is now in Phase 2 (TM)

Yesterday I decided to proceed to phase 2 of the project (Porting libzpool, ztest and zdb). And I'm happy to announce that libavl and libnvpair are already ported :)

Actually, it wasn't that difficult. I only had to change 7 lines of code for it to compile cleanly with gcc -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas (I'm using this flag because all files in the OpenSolaris source seem to have #pragma ident, which gcc doesn't recognize).

Now the real work begins. For libzpool to work, I'll have to implement a zfs_context.h which works with NPTL, and from the looks of it, it doesn't seem trivial :P

By the way, the ZFS on FUSE website was inacessible today because my Internet connection failed. Sorry about that.

Project website created

Hi,

The project website is finally up.

Now I really, really, really have to sleep. Bye! :)

ZFS On-Disk Specification

So, these past couple of days I've been reading the ZFS On-Disk Specification, which is not quite up-to-date, but it serves its purpose.

I find it relatively easy to understand, but I got slightly confused regarding the DSL and especially the Fat Zap structure. But I'm sure it'll start to make more sense when I dive into the code (then again, maybe I'll be more confused ;)

Anyway, tomorrow I'll definitely create the main project site, finish reading the spec and if time permits, I'll start importing the code.

Well, that's it for today :)

Announcing ZFS on FUSE/Linux

Hi everyone,

I'm very pleased to announce that, thanks to Google, Linux will (hopefully) have a working ZFS implementation by August 21st, 2006.

This site is where I'll keep you informed about my progress. A web site will soon be created for general information.

I'd just like to say that I'm very excited about this project. I think ZFS is a great filesystem, and I can't wait to have it working on Linux!

Of course, none of this would be possible without the work of Sun's engineers, who have done (and are still doing) a wonderful job, and of course, Google, who is sponsoring my project (and +600 other ones!).

Yay for Goooooooooooooogle!!!