On 24 April 2011 03:39, Justin Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:46 AM, David Crosswell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you ever been accused of being a drama queen before this? > > Hey, it's the Internet. People get defensive easily. > > What David was asking originally - is ZFS going to be ported/in the > process of porting to DragonFly - is a normal question, and one people > have asked before. It wouldn't be easy to port, but it would be nice. > > Hammer is much less resource-intensive than ZFS, but ZFS has some > really nice management commands. I would be happy to see both on > DragonFly, or to at least take an example from ZFS's expressive > commands for management for handling Hammer to meet those same needs. > > Hammer has some wonderful features, and we have a good open source > filesystem that compares well to something produced by one of the > world's larger Unix vendors. Rather than spending time complaining > about someone's perfectly valid desire for ZFS, we should be looking > at how we can make Hammer better. Antonio Huete has been working on a > libhammer library to bring out some of the Hammer functions, which > would make those richer management tools easier to put together. > (nudge, nudge, tuxillo) > Thank you for your clarity and consideration, Justin. Regards, David. -- In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates? http://www.weavers-web.org
