ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released

sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"

Comments

Not ZFS 0.6.1...

[Alcoholic Synonymous]

Sorry, but the title is misleading. ZFS did not hit 0.6.1, only this port for Linux. ZFS uses it's own versioning, which actually recently bumped to v5000.

Re:So... I presume this is a file system.

[Guy Harris]

And this "FFS", this is also a file system? ( :P )

Yes.

Depends on which ZFS

[SIGBUS]

Version 5000 is used for community ZFS implementations that have feature flags (Illumos, BSD, and Linux).

If you're talking about Solaris, the current version is 34; any version past 28 comes after Oracle closed off Solaris. Note that beyond version 28, the community and Oracle ZFS pools are not interoperable.