Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:56:13 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r344316 - head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs Message-ID: <20190220075613.GC84455@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20190219234328.wrmteippr6vbg2fr@mutt-hbsd> References: <201902192335.x1JNZu53080578@repo.freebsd.org> <20190219234328.wrmteippr6vbg2fr@mutt-hbsd>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote: > At the risk of painting a bikeshed a lovely color of neon purple, I'm > curious about if/how these types of commits get merged upstream to > (OpenZFS|Illumos|ZFS On Linux|where ever ZFS upstream is now|I'm very > confused|is anyone else confused where upstream is?). > > Who is upstream? Is work like this going to remain as a downstream > patch to ZFS? Or is FreeBSD going to work to upstream this type of > work? I've always felt that we should've become upstream to everyone else the moment we knew Oracle would eat Sun (20 April 2009), and never understood why it didn't happen and now, ten years later, we're talking about ZFS on fucking Linux becoming our upstream. Something'd got very wrong here and I'd like to know what and why. > I hope my curiousity doesn't offend anyone. ;) Not at all, I'm also confused and curious. ./danfe
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