On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Toby Thain wrote: >> >> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo. > > Hmmm... a lot of seasoned sysadmins would disagree. A source based > distribution has some significant advantages; I would not be surprised if > that concept outlives binary packaging and its attendant dependency hell.
I had Gentoo here and have lived to tell the tale. It would be a tall tale indeed if I was to claim to have recieved some sort of scars or undue stress from the experience, or even significant discomfort. The main issue was with burning CPU building new versions of software, but that is much less of an issue now. I do not claim to be in right mind without someone paying me money to do so. Regardless, I am not aware of anything preventing someone from creating a distributable source patch to insert ZFS into the Linux kernel, as long as the end user builds and installs their own kernel. While it may be difficult for some Linux users to understand, the source code is actually available for the Linux kernel. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
