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It appears that in earlier kernels the maximum name length of a kobject was KOBJ_NAME_LEN (20) bytes. This was later extended to dynamically allocate enough memory if it was over KOBJ_NAME_LEN, and finally it was always made dynamic. Unfortunately, util this last step happened it doesn't look like it always safe to use names larger than KOBJ_NAME_LEN. For example, under the RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel if the kobject name length exceeds KOBJ_NAME_LEN a NULL dereference is tripped. To avoid this issue the build system has been update to check to see if KOBJ_NAME_LEN is defined. If it is we have to assume the maximum kobject name length is only 20 bytes. This 20 byte name must minimally include the following components. <zpool>/<dataset>[@snapshot[partition]] |
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README.markdown
Native ZFS for Linux! ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It has been successfully ported to FreeBSD and now there is a functional Linux ZFS kernel port too. The port currently includes a fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, and ZVOL with a ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) on the way!
Documentation for building, configuring, and using ZFS can be found at: http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/