Google Summer of Code zfs-port project status update 2

ZFS as whole has 2 main ways it can be accessed. The first is ZVOL and the second is ZPL. In my first status update I said that I had ported ZVOL layer to NetBSD, and I was able to create and use ZFS Zpools and Zvols (Logical partitions exported from one disk storage pool called zpool).

Over the last few weeks I have worked on a ZPL port. ZPL is ZFS file system layer. I have ported zfs_vfsops.c file and zfs_vnops.c file to NetBSD. Today I have ZFS to state where I can mount ZFS data set, copy whole kernel source tree there and finally build NetBSD kernel on it.

$ su 
# modload /mod/solaris.kmod                                                                                                                       
# modload /mod/zfs.kmod                                                                                                                           
# zfs mount test/zfs
 # mount 
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)
kernfs on /kern type kernfs (local)
ptyfs on /dev/pts type ptyfs (local)
/dev/zvol/dsk/test/zfs on /test/zfs type zfs (local)
# zfs list 
NAME        USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
test        391M  1.57G    18K  /test
test/tank    40M  1.61G    16K  -
test/zfs    351M  1.57G   351M  /test/zfs
test/zfs1    18K  1.57G    18K  /test/zfs1
# cd /test/zfs/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC/
# make           
making sure the compat library is up to date...
`libcompat.a' is up to date.
making sure the kern library is up to date...
`libkern.o' is up to date.
#   compile  GENERIC/init_main.o
cc -ffreestanding -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -O2 -std=gnu99 -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -Wall -Wno-main -Wno-format-zero-length -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unreachable-code -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-attributes -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Werror -Di386 -I. -I../../../../../common/include -I../../../../arch -I../../../.. -nostdinc -DMAXUSERS=64 -D_KERNEL -D_KERNEL_OPT -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/quad -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/string -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/arch/i386/string -I../../../../dist/ipf -I../../../../external/isc/atheros_hal/dist -I../../../../external/isc/atheros_hal/ic -I../../../../../common/include -c ../../../../kern/init_main.c
#    create  vers.c
sh ../../../../conf/newvers.sh 
#   compile  GENERIC/vers.o
cc  -ffreestanding -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss  -O2 -std=gnu99 -fno-strict-aliasing   -Werror -Wall -Wno-main -Wno-format-zero-length -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unreachable-code -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-attributes -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter  -Werror   -Di386 -I.  -I../../../../../common/include -I../../../../arch  -I../../../.. -nostdinc  -DMAXUSERS=64 -D_KERNEL -D_KERNEL_OPT -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/quad -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/string -I../../../../lib/libkern/../../../common/lib/libc/arch/i386/string   -I../../../../dist/ipf -I../../../../external/isc/atheros_hal/dist -I../../../../external/isc/atheros_hal/ic -I../../../../../common/include  -c vers.c
#      link  GENERIC/netbsd
ld -Map netbsd.map --cref -T ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript -Ttext c0100000 -e start -X -o netbsd ${SYSTEM_OBJ} ${EXTRA_OBJ} vers.o
NetBSD 5.99.14 (GENERIC) #1: Tue Jun 30 20:00:37 UTC 2009
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8554455  407284  538396 9500135  90f5e7 netbsd

I tried to boot build kernel and it worked like a charm. There is still much work to do port ZFS snapshot support, properly implement security policies for ZFS access, test ZFS ACL support etc.

My work is accessible in my git repository at git://rachael.ziaspace.com/src.git in a branch called haad-zfs. You can easily clone this repo with command git clone git://rachael.ziaspace.com/src.git. To get haad-zfs branch checkout you need to use command git checkout -b haad-zfs origin/haad-zfs from src directory.