From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: fistgen-0.1.1 released (linux-2.6 support) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:54:23 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040731105423.GB23725@mail.shareable.org> References: <410ABE18.1080600@pobox.com> <200407302141.i6ULfG9Y010365@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:44474 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267939AbUGaKye (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2004 06:54:34 -0400 To: Erez Zadok Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407302141.i6ULfG9Y010365@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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