On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:53 AM, sol wrote:
> >> if a bug fixed in Illumos is never reported to Oracle by a customer,
> >> it would likely never get fixed in Solaris either
> >
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > I would have liked to think that there was some good-will between the
> ex- and current-members of the zfs team, in the sense that the people who
> created zfs but then left Oracle still care about it enough to want the
> Oracle version to be as bug-free as possible.
>
> There is good-will between the developers. And the ZFS working group has
> representatives
> currently employed by Oracle. However, Oracle is a lawnmower.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
>
> >
> > (Obviously I don't expect this to be the case for developers of all
> software but I think filesystem developers are a special breed!)
>
> They are! And there are a lot of really cool things happening in the wild
> as well as behind
> Oracle's closed doors.
>  -- richard
>
> --
>
> ZFS and performance consulting
> http://www.RichardElling.com
> illumos meetup, Jan 10, 2012, Menlo Park, CA
> http://www.meetup.com/illumos-User-Group/events/41665962/
>
>
>


Speaking of illumos, what exactly is the deal with the zfs discuss mailing
list?  There's all of 3 posts that show up for all of 2011.  Am I missing
something, or is there just that little traction currently?
http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182191/sort/time_rev/

--Tim
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