From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750848AbXDOEQJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:16:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750907AbXDOEQI (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:16:08 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:49119 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbXDOEQH (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:16:07 -0400 Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea From: Kasper Sandberg To: "David R. Litwin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:16:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1176610562.21285.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. >