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The big news here seems to be that iXsystems (the company behind FreeNAS/TrueNAS) is sponsoring this work now. This PR supersedes ones that was opened back in

The big news here seems to be that iXsystems (the company behind FreeNAS/TrueNAS) is sponsoring this work now. This PR supersedes ones that was opened back in 2021 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12225#issuecomment-1610169213 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12225#issuecomment-16101...

seltzered_ 3y ago
Yep, see also https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-for-zfs/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-... (2022) (Via https://lobste.rs/s/5ahxj1/raid_z_expansion_feature_for_zfs_goes_live https://lobste.rs/s/5ahxj1/raid_z_expansion_feature_for_zfs_... )
wkat4242 3y ago
I hope this corporate sponsorship won't go the way that wireguard went. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice... What worries me the most is them doubling down on it after it was shown to be a mess and totally insecure. I imagine to protect the corporate image. But such corporate interests don't belong in FreeBSD. Just admit you hired the wrong guy (or the right guy at the wrong time) and take the hit. Because it wasn't even the company's fault really. The lack of serious review on the freebsd side was also a big one but I find the 'strings attached' the biggest issue myself because it made mitigation of serious issues such a problem. The large amount of corporate kernel work in Linux is why I went for FreeBSD and to see whatever little go so wrong was worrying.
- SpecialistK 3y ago
  iXsystems are an entirely different beast than Netgate (pfSense). One can trace its legacy to BSD while it was still at Berkley and has worked with many of the most respected names in the BSD space. The other bought a domain name of a fork and used it to post disparaging messages and Hitler "Downfall" memes slandering them. Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2017-1828 https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D20... While I have some disagreements with iXsystems' pivot to ZFS-on-Linux offerings and the like, they're not the clowns that Netgate / pfSense are. 10cm to my right are TrueNAS and opnSense boxes - you won't catch me dead using pfSense in my network after the crap they've pulled.

seltzered_ 3y ago

Yep, see also https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-for-zfs/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/raid-z-expansion-feature-... (2022) (Via https://lobste.rs/s/5ahxj1/raid_z_expansion_feature_for_zfs_goes_live https://lobste.rs/s/5ahxj1/raid_z_expansion_feature_for_zfs_... )

wkat4242 3y ago

I hope this corporate sponsorship won't go the way that wireguard went. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice... What worries me the most is them doubling down on it after it was shown to be a mess and totally insecure. I imagine to protect the corporate image. But such corporate interests don't belong in FreeBSD. Just admit you hired the wrong guy (or the right guy at the wrong time) and take the hit. Because it wasn't even the company's fault really. The lack of serious review on the freebsd side was also a big one but I find the 'strings attached' the biggest issue myself because it made mitigation of serious issues such a problem. The large amount of corporate kernel work in Linux is why I went for FreeBSD and to see whatever little go so wrong was worrying.

SpecialistK 3y ago
iXsystems are an entirely different beast than Netgate (pfSense). One can trace its legacy to BSD while it was still at Berkley and has worked with many of the most respected names in the BSD space. The other bought a domain name of a fork and used it to post disparaging messages and Hitler "Downfall" memes slandering them. Source: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2017-1828 https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D20... While I have some disagreements with iXsystems' pivot to ZFS-on-Linux offerings and the like, they're not the clowns that Netgate / pfSense are. 10cm to my right are TrueNAS and opnSense boxes - you won't catch me dead using pfSense in my network after the crap they've pulled.