- better ACL caching and speedup of ACL permission checks
- faster handling of stat()
- lowered mutex contention in the read/writer lock (rrwlock)
- several related bugfixes
Detailed information (OpenSolaris onnv changesets and Bug IDs):
9749:105f407a2680
6802734 Support for Access Based Enumeration (not used on FreeBSD)
6844861 inconsistent xattr readdir behavior with too-small buffer
9866:ddc5f1d8eb4e
6848431 zfs with rstchown=0 or file_chown_self privilege allows user to "take" ownership
9981:b4907297e740
6775100 stat() performance on files on zfs should be improved
6827779 rrwlock is overly protective of its counters
10143:d2d432dfe597
6857433 memory leaks found at: zfs_acl_alloc/zfs_acl_node_alloc
6860318 truncate() on zfsroot succeeds when file has a component of its path set without access permission
10232:f37b85f7e03e
6865875 zfs sometimes incorrectly giving search access to a dir
10250:b179ceb34b62
6867395 zpool_upgrade_007_pos testcase panic'd with BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault)
10269:2788675568fd
6868276 zfs_rezget() can be hazardous when znode has a cached ACL
10295:f7a18a1e9610
6870564 panic in zfs_getsecattr
Approved by: delphij (mentor)
Obtained from: OpenSolaris (multiple Bug IDs)
MFC after: 2 weeks
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
