On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Bryan Cantrill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No evidence of either. To me, it is clear that the epicenter of >> innovation for the core technologies like ZFS, DTrace and Zones has >> shifted to the community -- but I doubt that Oracle will ever be so >> self-aware as to come to the same conclusion... > > ZFS needs an on disk dataformat and Sun did not create a framework that allows > to have vendor specific enhancements and that supports a distributed > development. > > Did someone think about a format (e.g. similar to the POSIX.1-2001 tar > extensions) that would allow to implement vendor unique extensions and that > would allow to ignore some features wile implementing others? > > Jörg >
Yes. :) The proposal is called "feature flags" and described here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2011-May/048514.html Matt Ahrens also presented at the OpenStorage Summit: http://blog.delphix.com/matt/files/2011/11/oss.pdf -Albert ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
