Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

[Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin 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 or any of the rest of that nonsense. The code is there; it merely  
> needs to be made to work with Linux. Done and done -- provided I can find  
> some one to do this for me (I'd do it myself, but I haven't the foggiest  
> notion how to go about such a feat).
> 
> By the way, forget about this FUSE business. I don't know why they're  
> bothering: It's not real, it's slow and, in general, silly.
This seems to me to be a rather uninformed, arrogant, and quite stupid
comment.

> 
> What are the thoughts of the Linux community?
> 
> I appologise right now for my intrusion. I am a Linux-nobody; I freely  
> admit it. I haven't even subscribed to this list (so do CC me) because I  
> don't want to be over-whelmed with the list's glorious posts. But, part of  
> Linux is it's being a community. If a member of this community (that is, a  
> user of Linux) can't ask the others their
> thoughts and opinions, then the community has failed in a large respect.  
> Take this letter as you will.
>