Does there exist an operating system supporting ZFS under the MIPS architecture?
If so, which operating system(s)?
I am especially interested in:
1 Answer
Well, there was an effort to port FreeBSD to mips/loongson, but it seems that this port was not marked as "stable enough" to be compiled and distributed. Additional info:
- https://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010VladimirSerbinenko
- http://www.freebsdnews.net/2010/04/26/google-soc-2010-freebsd-projects/
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2010-September/author.html
- http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=7357
The best you could do is to give AWAY Zfs on this architecture, or wait for any FreeBSD move on this hardware. Why?
- OpenBSD runs smooth on Loongson, but it does not have(and will not, if zfs remain CDDL licensed) zfs support.
- FreeBSD loongson port was not reviewed and marked as "production ready"
- NetBSD has zfs just on i386/amd64 - http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/haad/porting_zfs/ . NetBSD-current have some port work being done to this architecture, but i really don´t know the real state of it - http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/arch/evbmips/loongson/ - http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbmips/
- IllumOS does not support loongson
- Even Debian having a port to loongson/mips compiled, zfsonlinux just works with amd64, and the package zfs-fuse have ports to amd64, i386, sparc and powerpc only.
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1Thanks! Let's hope ZFS makes it to MIPS/Loongson eventually!– user6860Dec 9, 2013 at 11:48
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1For sure. And with OpenZFS, create a common user userbase that will allow this filesystem across many OSes without being crippled with the licensing issues that zfs have. :) - open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page– user34720Dec 9, 2013 at 12:18