On 9/10/2014 1:33 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > Filesystems are getting increasingly complex due to the increasing demands on > them. It takes a lot more work to develop a filesystem than it used to.
That's fine, but they still need to be developed responsibly and without the *problems* of 3.17 in recent times and other issues that get pushed out too quickly or without proper testing. It seems that the whole development is suspect to me. > I've had RAM problems on a system with 4G of RAM running not much apart from > Samba. I don't think that zfsonlinux has changed much since then. Forget Linux, FreeBSD with ZFS ... that's quite different, more stable and with no RAM issues. > ZFS just manages memory differently from anything that was developed for > Linux. Changing that would require significant code changes which would be > another potential source of stability problems. ZFS on Linux. Unfortunately, the license issues are a problem with Linux which leads to other issues, but not so with FreeBSD. >> The way Debian is going, it is looking like a real option to switch to >> FreeBSD with a very mature ZFS and to give up on Linux for some use >> cases and possibly end up not even having to worry about systemd or >> other things being pushed in to Debian by Red Hat people ever again. I >> am very sure that these issues will drive many AWAY from Linux in >> general and Debian in particular! > > Systemd wasn't pushed in to Debian by Red Hat or anyone else. The Debian > technical committee decided that systemd was the best option. I've read that it is Red Hat employees moonlighting, but that's not first hand. Still I think that the decision to go systemd is going to do Debian a great deal of damage. > After that decision there were a lot of threats and abuse by some people with > obvious mental health problems. But such people don't matter when it comes > to > making a decision because they lack the intelligence or sanity to contribute > to Debian in any way. Too many people are aggrieved by the change to be just your *bad* type of people here. There is no doubt in my mind that systemd and how it has been handled by Debian is a complete disaster. A. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
