ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 29, 2013 @04:10AM from the brand-new dept.

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.'"

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Re:File systems have version#? by unixisc · 2013-03-29 08:29 · Score: -1, Troll

FAT 12 for all practical purposes never really existed. It was always FAT16 for DOS and FAT32 surfaced w/ Windows 95. But you never really had a FAT 95, FAT 98, FAT XP, or anything like that. In your Linux example above, that's another spanner in the works - ext2, ext3, ext4. How about deprecating older versions, or at least leaving them w/ older systems when a new version comes along? Like don't try ext4 w/ Linux 2.6, don't try ext2 w/ Linux 3.6 and so on.