On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Things that provide us with improvements over what we have are > definitely worth consideration as GSoC projects. However, what is > accepted ultimately depends on not only feedback from a potential > mentor, but also a vote of Gentoo developers.
Honestly, this seems like a less-than-ideal fit for Gentoo. We don't really use ZFS at all, other than as yet another package in our tree. Any of the Mozilla/ GSoC ideas would make as much sense to deliver as part of the Gentoo GSoC. Now, if this were about integrating auto-snapshots into the package manager, (like can be done with snapper), etc, then I could see more relevance (though it probably wouldn't rise to a full project). I could also see some kind of project to integrate advanced filesystem features into core elements of our distro across many filesystems (though I don't really see the relevance for reflinks in particular, and they only apply to COW filesystems anyway). This just seems like a ZFS project, and not like a Gentoo project. I'd say the same if this were about adding a mute button to tabs in Chromium, or fixing the offline btrfsck, or whatever. All of those things would be useful to Gentoo, but only insofar as they'd be useful to anybody. Rich
