[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#991896: Bug#991896: New upstream version 2.1.0 available

[Chris Dos]

On 8/8/21 10:16 PM, Antonio Russo wrote:
> With the release coming up, I don't think anyone has made getting
> new versions of software into Debian a major priority. (So that's
> the excuse this time!)
> 
> (Post-release) As for 2.1, I'd like to get this into experimental
> -- and I'd like to keep unstable/bookworm on 2.0, since my
> understanding is that it is long-term stable, while 2.1 is short-
> term stable.
> 
> If it turns out that 2.1 gets kernel compatibility updates faster/
> more reliably than 2.0, I think that's a good argument to jumping
> to 2.1.  But, some of the features in 2.1 look like they might be
> high-risk.  I'm personally not moving to 2.1 for a while, for this
> reason.
> 
> (This is just me musing right now, I'm certainly not able to give
> an official answer).
> 
> Best,
> Antonio

There is no new functionality in 2.1 that I'm looking for and I think DRAID is
good for very niche systems and raidz* offers more redundancy.  But the most
important thing in 2.1 for us is the faster pool import times.  We have two
pools over 1.5 PB with over 230 hard drives.  Pool imports take over an hour.
 If those patches (#11470 #11502 #11469 #11467 #11467) could be back ported to
2.0 that would be even better.

	Chris