From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161108AbXDNMQJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:16:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161172AbXDNMQJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:16:09 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49717 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161108AbXDNMQI (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:16:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:16:04 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Neil Brown Cc: "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea Message-ID: <20070414121604.GA19875@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Neil Brown , "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <17952.5537.364603.419364@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17952.5537.364603.419364@notabene.brown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:43:29AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday April 13, presently42@gmail.com wrote: > > Before I go on, let me appologise. I don't really know what I hope to > > accomplish, beyond trying to garner thoughts (and support?) for the topic. > > > > Essentially: I want to use Linux and ZFS. I don't particularly care about > > licences > > You may not care about licenses, but a lot of people do. And they are > a real issue. > > But I'm more interested in what you really want. > What, specifically, is there in ZFS that you want to use in Linux? > There is lots of interesting stuff in there, but which bit has caught > your attention? It is possible that that functionality can be > incorporated into Linux without trying to clone or copy ZFS. Linux definitly missed the hype value. So everyone please start blogs and do a of handwaving to get the mindspehere in web 2.0 back.. /me sighs