On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Erik Trimble wrote > On 1/3/2011 8:28 AM, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: >>> On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: >>>> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling >>>> <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> There are more people outside of Oracle developing for ZFS than inside >>>> Oracle. >>>> This has been true for some time now. >>>> >>>> >>>> Pardon my skepticism, but where is the proof of this claim (I'm quite >>>> certain you know I mean no disrespect)? Solaris11 Express was a massive >>>> leap in functionality and bugfixes to ZFS. I've seen exactly nothing out >>>> of "outside of Oracle" in the time since it went closed. We used to see >>>> updates bi-weekly out of Sun. Nexenta spending hundreds of man-hours on a >>>> GUI and userland apps isn't work on ZFS. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Exactly my observation as well. I haven't seen any ZFS related development >>> happening at Ilumos or Nexenta, at least not yet. >> >> I am quite sure you understand how pipelines work :-) >> -- richard > > I'm getting pretty close to my pain threshold on the BP_rewrite stuff, since > not having that feature's holding up a big chunk of work I'd like to push. > > If anyone outside of Oracle is working on some sort of change to ZFS that > will allow arbitrary movement/placement of pre-written slabs, can they please > contact me? I'm pretty much at the point where I'm going to start diving > into that chunk of the source to see if there's something little old me can > do, and I'd far rather help on someone else's implementation than have to do > it myself from scratch. > > I'd prefer a private contact, as I realize that such work may not be ready > for public discussion yet. > > Thanks, folks! > > Oh, and this is completely just me, not Oracle talking in any way.
Oracle doesn't seem to say much at all :-( But for those interested, Nexenta is actively hiring people to work in this area. -- richard
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