On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote:
>
>>
>> Funny (ironic?) you'd quote the UNIX philosophy when the Linux folks have
>> been running around since day
>> one claiming the basic concept of ZFS fly's in the face of that very
>> concept.  Rather than do one thing
>> well, it's unifying two things (file system and raid/disk management) into
>> one.  :)
>>
>
> Most software introduced in Linux clearly violates the "UNIX philosophy".
>  Instead of small and simple parts we have huge and complex parts, with many
> programs requiring 70 or 80 libraries in order to run.  Zfs's intermingling
> of layers is benign in comparison.
>
>
> Bob
>
>
You can take that up with them :)  I'm just pointing out the obvious irony
of  claiming separation as an excuse for not adding features when the
product is based on the very idea of unification of
layers/features/functionality.

--Tim
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