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
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