On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 13:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Erik Trimble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > While I hate to hijack this conversation, but the relative merits > (and > > > continued need) of SVM/UFS are well-discussed over on the > > > [email protected] mailing list. Look back the archives. > > > > There are still reasons for specific use cases where UFS makes morer > sense than > > ZFS. I would like to see md to be continued. > > That's been decided. > > > > > BTW: what is the problem to keep working software? > > No problem. But if there are no consumers at all for such software, and > no maintainers, then it quickly bitrots. Ultimately, the baggage that > such software affects us all, as each time we do a checkout and build, > we have to wait for that stuff to build and package. > > Individually the cost for each such package is low. Collectively, they > add up. > > We've already determined that md is not in the class of unused software > on OpenSolaris/illumos, which was the high order bit I needed. > My 2 cents (even being decided): I still use md in some of the servers I use, and remember we said something about being backwards compatible with older (Open)Solaris versions. If we cut this, we'll break promises ;-) Best regards, HeCSa. > > - Garrett > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss > -- HeCSa
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