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1.1     ! gdt         1: # ZFS on NetBSD
        !             2: 
        !             3: This page attempts to do two things: provide enough orientatino and
        !             4: pointers to standard ZFS documentation for NetBSD users who are new to
        !             5: ZFS, and to to describe NetBSD-specific ZFS information.  It is
        !             6: emphatically not a tutorial or an introduction to ZFS.
        !             7: 
        !             8: Many things are marked with \todo because they need a better
        !             9: explanation, and some have question marks, indicating that the
        !            10: statement needs verification.
        !            11: 
        !            12: # Documentation Pointers
        !            13: 
        !            14: See the man pages for zfs(8) and zpool(8).
        !            15: 
        !            16: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E37384/index.html
        !            17: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs.html
        !            18: 
        !            19: # Status of ZFS in NetBSD
        !            20: 
        !            21: NetBSD has imported OpenZFS.  \todo versions, links
        !            22: 
        !            23: ## NetBSD 8 and earlier
        !            24: 
        !            25: While there is some ZFS code, it is old, and seems to have significant
        !            26: problems.  If one wants to use ZFS, first upgrade to NetBSD 9.  It is
        !            27: unlikely that anyone is interested in helping, other than telling you
        !            28: to upgrade to 9.
        !            29: 
        !            30: (Reports of how well NetBDS 8 works are welcome on netbsd-users, if it
        !            31: can actually be recommended for use.)
        !            32: 
        !            33: ## NetBSD 9
        !            34: 
        !            35: There have been fixes since 9.0 RELEASE.  It is best to upgrade along
        !            36: the netbsd-9 branch, but the release should be ok.
        !            37: 
        !            38: \todo This is OpenZFS as of X.   Most aspects work solidly.
        !            39: 
        !            40: \todo This supports pool version 28/5000 (really true?).  Of the
        !            41: feature flags found in modern OpenZFS, \todo are supported.
        !            42: 
        !            43: ## NetBSD current
        !            44: 
        !            45: There is initial support for ZFS root, via booting from ffs and pivoting.
        !            46: 
        !            47: One can make a ccd using a zvol as a component.  This allows reading a
        !            48: GPT label from the zvol, which is useful in case the zvol had been
        !            49: exported via iscsi and some other system created a label.
        !            50: 
        !            51: ## things that aren't suported yet
        !            52: 
        !            53: \todo (?) hotswap
        !            54: 
        !            55: \todo (?) direct boot into zfs root
        !            56: 
        !            57: ## Architectures
        !            58: 
        !            59: Most people seem to be using amd64.
        !            60: 
        !            61: To build zfs, one puts MKZFS=yes in mk.conf.  This is default on amd64
        !            62: and aarch64 on netbsd-9.  In current, it is also default on sparc64.
        !            63: 
        !            64: More or less, zfs can be enabled on an architecture when it is known
        !            65: to build and run reliably.  (Of course, users are welcome to build it
        !            66: and report.)
        !            67: 
        !            68: # NetBSD-specific information
        !            69: 
        !            70: ## rc.conf
        !            71: 
        !            72: The main configuration is to put zfs=YES in rc.conf, so that the rc.d
        !            73: scripts bring up ZFS and mount ZFS filesystems.
        !            74: 
        !            75: ## mount order
        !            76: 
        !            77: NetBSD mounts other filesystems and then ZFS filesystems.  This can be
        !            78: a problem if /usr/pkgsrc is on ZFS and /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles is on
        !            79: NFS.  A workaround is to use noauto and do the mounts in /etc/rc.local.
        !            80: 
        !            81: ## TRIM
        !            82: 
        !            83: There is some notion of TRIM and zfs using it.
        !            84: 
        !            85: \todo Explain how this relates to NetBSD.
        !            86: 
        !            87: # Memory usage
        !            88: 
        !            89: Basically, ZFS uses lots of memory and most people run it on systems
        !            90: with large amounts of memory.  NetBSD works well on systems with
        !            91: comparatively small amounts of memory.  So a natural question is how
        !            92: well ZFS works on one's VAX with 2M of RAM :-)
        !            93: 
        !            94: More seriously, one might ask if is reasonable to run ZFS on a RPI3
        !            95: with 1G of RAM, or even if it is reasonable on a system with 4G.
        !            96: 
        !            97: \todo Give ballpark level for minimum sane RAM, and the amount which
        !            98: is cleanly enough.
        !            99: 
        !           100: FreeBSD has some documentation about memory use.  \todo Explain if
        !           101: this applies, or if not what we should do instead.
        !           102: 
        !           103: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs-advanced.html
        !           104: 
        !           105: # Interoperability with other systems
        !           106: 
        !           107: \todo Explain pool version and feature flags relationship to FreeBSD,
        !           108: Linux, OpenIndiana/Illumos/?, and ?
        !           109: 
        !           110: