On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 2008, at 14:01, Mario Goebbels wrote: > >> I mean, if the Linux folks to want it, fine. But if Sun's actually >> helping with such a possible effort, then it's just shooting itself in >> the foot here, in my opinion. > >
[....] > they're quick to do it - they threatened to sue me when they couldn't > figure out how to take back a try-out server). There's a story contained within that for sure! :) You brought a smile to this subscriber when I read it. > Having ZFS as a de- facto standard lifts all boats, IMHO. It's still hard to believe (in one sense) that the entire world isn't beating a path to Sun's door and PLEADING for ZFS. This is (if y'all will forgive the colloquialism) a kick-ass amazing piece of software. It appears to defy all the rules, a bit like levitation in a way, or perhaps it just rewrites those rules. There are days I still can't get my head around what ZFS really is. In general, licensing issues just make my brain bleed, but one hopes that the licensing gurus can get their heads together and find a way to get this done. I don't personally believe that Open Solaris *OR* Solaris will lose if ZFS makes its way over the fence to Linux, I think that this is a big enough tent for everyone. Sure hope so anyway, it would be immensely sad to see technology like this not being adopted/ported/migrated/whatever more widely because of "damn lawyers" and the morass called licensing. Perhaps (gazing into a cloudy crystal ball that hasn't been cleaned in a while) Solaris/Open Solaris can manage to hold onto ZFS-on-boot which is perhaps *the* most mind bending accomplishment within the zfs concept, and let the rest procreate elsewhere. That could contribute to the "must-have/must-install" cachet of Solaris/OpenSolaris. Umm, my uninspiring and non-expert contribution to this (unusually) non-expert thread. Thanks to all involved on this list, sometimes it seems like every post is a kind of mini tutorial all on its own. Warm Regards and thanks for all the fish/knowledge nuggets -Colin -- Colin J. Raven "A wide-eyed neophyte staring through the window at the wizards toiling within" _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
