Re: fistgen-0.1.1 released (linux-2.6 support)

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Erez Zadok wrote:
> > where is the README or URL that describes what fistgen _is_?
> > 
> > Your announcement is tailored such that only people who already know 
> > what fistgen (version 0.1.1) is would want to download it.
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> 
> I'll say again...
> 
>    http://www.filesystems.org/

I'm with Jeff.

A one line description of what fistgen is in the email would still be helpful.

I'm not going to waste 30 seconds faffing about starting a web
browser, if you can't be bothered to include a simple brief
description.

Like many people, I read lots of mails, quickly.  Yesterday it was
nearly 2000.  I spent an average time of 2 seconds on each.  It's not
possible to follow links to web sites on that time scale.

If a quick scan says its interesting, I'll read more, maybe even break
out the browser.  Something as trivial as an informative subject line
or a brief description makes all the difference.

This is constructive criticism, the point being please include a brief
description of what the thing is when making public announcements.
It's not hard, and very useful.

In the interests of generosity, I've just had a look at
www.filesystems.org.  From your email announcement, I had guessed that
FiST and fistgen were some sort of userspace filesystem tool, like
podfuk and a few others (including an NFS-based one I worked on).  But
now I see that it's not.

To be honest, from reading the main page of the web site I still don't
understand what FiST is useful for at the moment.  As research it
looks very promising.  Btw, does it offer the facility for lazy
copy-on-write trees that was discussed on linux-kernel a few months
ago -- useful for jails and cloned compilation trees?

-- Jamie