v0.6.3-1.3

Bug Fixes

• Fixed current_kernel_time() in the time compatibility wrappers
• Linux 3.12 compat: split shrinker has s_shrink
• Linux 3.19 compat: file_inode was added
• Linux 4.0 compat: bdi_setup_and_register()
• Linux compat: misc_register()/misc_deregister()

v0.6.3-1.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed typo in %post scriptlet
• Fixed ACL-to-mode translation panic for empty ACL
• Fixed freed spill blocks must be undirtied
• Fixed serialization on mutex_exit() to fix race
• Linux 3.12 compat: shrinker semantics
• Linux 3.16 compat: smp_mb__after_clear_bit()
• Linux 3.17 compat: remove wait_on_bit action function
• Linux 3.18 compat: mandatory locks
• Exported ZIL interfaces
• Set spl_kmem_cache_slab_limit=16384 to default
• Set spl_kmem_cache_reclaim=0 to default

v0.6.3-1.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed panic in zil_commit()
• Fixed DKMS packaging

v0.6.3

New Functionality

• Compatible with kernels up to Linux 3.14.
• A smoother write throttle for consistent performance under load.
• Smarter caching to improve the cache hit rate for certain workloads.
• Support for Posix style ACLs.
• Support for the immutable and append-only file attributes.
• Support for mounting filesystems with relatime style updates.
• SELinux integration through four new dataset properties.
• Systemd support for better distribution integration.
• A new ZFS Event Daemon (ZED) for pool monitoring and management.
• Support for aarch64 and sparc64 architectures.

Bug Fixes

• Many performance improvements.
• Over 200 bug fixes.

v0.6.2

New Functionality

• Added Linux 3.11 compatibility
• Added arcstat.py script from FreeNAS
• Added 'zpool labelclear' command from FreeBSD
• Added L2ARC compression from Illumos
• Added I/O deadman thread from Illumos
• Added SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE to lseek()/llseek()
• Added writeable arc+l2arc module options
• Improved detection of advanced format (AF) disks
• Improved N-way mirror read performance
• Improved zdb to display SA xattrs

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing zvols on import
• Fixed setting lower ashift with '-o ashift'
• Fixed xattr error handling
• Fixed kernel stack overflows
• Fixed spinning arc_adapt process
• Fixed spinning in iterate_supers_type() on unmount
• Fixed read-only pool unmount hang
• Fixed txg_quiesce deadlock
• Fixed .zfs/snapshot unmount deadlock
• Fixed zfs_readdir() returns type and offset
• Fixed SA based xattrs on symlinks
• Fixed zpool_read_label() so it reads all labels
• Fixed mount flags leaking in to the kernel
• Fixed panic in arc_read()
• Fixed panic in zfs_sb_teardown()/zfs_resume_fs()
• Fixed ARC caching freed blocks from Illumos
• Fixed slow space map condensing from Illumos
• Fixed taskq contention from Illumos

v0.6.1

New Functionality

• Added Linux 3.9 compatibility
• Added snapdev property to control visibility of zvol snapshots.
• Git - included in release for working builds.
• Updated dkms and kmod compliant packaging.
• Added man pages for splat, fsck.zfs, mount.zfs, zhack, zinject, zpios, ztest, and zpool-features.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed disk cache flushing for 2.6.37 and newer kernels.
• Fixed hot spare functionality.
• Disabled old on-disk format warning for zpool status -x.
• Enabled zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable by default.
• Improved slab object reclaim behavior.