>> As I said in a different thread, I really do try to respond to people in >> the manner that they deserve > This is the wrong way to approach the problem.
Sorry, Will: it might be the wrong way for *you* to approach 'the problem' (such as it is), but not for me. ... >> (I was beginning to wonder whether there *were* any less-rabid bystanders) > Well, there were - I for one would have been interested in criticisms > of ZFS, and comparisons to other systems - but I was so put off by the > other content in your earlier emails that I didn't bother reading the > later ones. Your choice, your loss: take responsibility for it. Here's a paragraph from an early email you sent to the > list: > >> I'm afraid that you just don't know what you're talking about, Robert >> - and IIRC I've corrected you on this elsewhere, so you have no excuse >> for repeating your misconceptions now. > The adage about attracting more flies with honey than vinegar applies here. I have no interest in attracting flies - and should I do so inadvertently, I swat them. Robert got off on the wrong foot in the post to which I was responding and then reasserted a misconception which I had previously corrected him on elsewhere, so I swatted him (relatively gently); later, when his tone improved, so did mine. > > Now I shall bow out of this argument entirely. If it ceases to be an > argument, though, I shall be interested in seeing what you have to > say. Difficult as it may be for you to conceive, your attention or lack thereof is not a matter of great concern to me, welcome though you are to pick up anything that might be useful to you (just as I don't much care whether any insights I might come up with are used to improve ZFS: how good or bad ZFS turns out to be is an issue for its developers and its users to tackle). Though I'm happy to answer what questions I can if I notice them, I'm primarily here on the off-chance that I might learn something useful myself, and so far that effort has been almost completely wasted. In the process, however, I've encountered some crap that I decided I wouldn't tolerate, and that's why we're where we are now. - bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
