On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:48:49PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > I'm all for it, but: > > If it's that simple, why does it need a separate community? > > One of the fundamental aims of zfs is that it should "just work". > (And by and large my experience supports that.) If it succeeds, what > will there be to talk about? > > I know that my own hope is that zfs will become essentially invisible > (unlike things like svm and ufs, which need constant looking at), > and that the real interest is not in ZFS but the higher level services > that you can layer on top of it. (Which, in a sense, argues for the > wider scope of a Data and Storage Management community.) >
Some thoughts off the top of my head: FAQ, Documentation, Demo tools, Future projects, Blogs, etc. Keep in mind that ZFS will most likely be the first truly major project to be "released" via OpenSolaris - having a place where interested folks can gather, learn, and share, is important. The main need is obviously a discussion forum. Regardless of how simple the administration model is, people will want to discuss the implementation, possible enhancments, bugs, codereviews, benchmarks, comparisons to other filessytems, etc. As mentioned by Dan, if there were a mechanism for creating 'projects' as opposed to 'communities', this might be a prime example (along with UFS). Given that this facility doesn't exist, the only choice is to create a community. If someone has a question about the RAID implementation used by ZFS, 'storage-discuss' is probably not the best place ;-) If, at some future date, the association between communities and projects is clearly defined (which Stephen is working on), there is no reason why the ZFS community couldn't become a project in a larger storage and/or filesystem community. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
