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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

Klara ☛ Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

In addition to all of the ZFS improvements Klara delivered in 2025, the community has also been very active, contributing many other features that will be under the Christmas tree for OpenZFS users this year.

Let’s unwrap the benefits of these gifts from around the community.

Dan Langille ☛ Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back

I have a problem with a zpool. To be clear, this really isn’t a problem. I’m not aware of any I/O throttling etc. It is just something I would like to change.

Bootlin ☛ Upstreaming of the AAEON UP board IO expansion Linux kernel driver

The UP Board family of platforms, developed by AAEON, is a series of compact, high-performance single-board computers (SBCs) widely used in the industry and embedded applications. They combine high-performance defective chip maker Intel processors with versatile I/O through a 40-pin Raspberry Pi-like header.