On 2013-01-20 17:16, Edward Harvey wrote:
But, by talking about it, we're just smoking pipe dreams. Cuz we all know zfs is developmentally challenged now. But one can dream...
I beg to disagree. While most of my contribution was so far about learning stuff and sharing with others, as well as planting some new ideas and (hopefully, seen as constructively) doubting others - including the implementation we have now - and I do have yet to see someone pick up my ideas and turn them into code (or prove why they are rubbish) -- overall I can't say that development stagnated by some metric of stagnation or activity. Yes, maybe there were more "cool new things" per year popping up with Sun's concentrated engineering talent and financing, but now it seems that most players - wherever they work now - took a pause from the marathon, to refine what was done in the decade before. And this is just as important as churning out innovations faster than people can comprehend or audit or use them. As a loud example of present active development - take the LZ4 quests completed by Saso recently. From what I gather, this is a single man's job done "on-line" in the view of fellow list members over a few months, almost like a reality-show; and I guess anyone with enough concentration, time and devotion could do likewise. I suspect many of my proposals to the list might also take some half of a man-year to complete. Unfortunately for the community and for part of myself, I now have some higher daily priorities so that I likely won't sit down and code lots of stuff in the nearest years (until that Priority goes to school, or so). Maybe that's why I'm eager to suggest quests for brilliant coders here who can complete the job better and faster than I ever would ;) So I'm doing the next best things I can do to help the progress :) And I don't believe this is in vain, that the development ceased and my writings are only destined to be "stuffed under the carpet". Be it these RFEs or dome others, better and more useful, I believe they shall be coded and published in common ZFS code. Sometime... //Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
