Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:40:06 -0000 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ali Mashtizadeh <mashtizadeh@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. Message-ID: <86lkfntndt.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070517124648.GA98052@hub.freebsd.org> (Darren Reed's message of "Thu\, 17 May 2007 12\:46\:48 %2B0000") References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409094319.GB76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <70e8236f0704090808y5d305175wdc3cee5be1a26a9@mail.gmail.com> <20070409153338.GH76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <440b3e930705131031v5e97db7fq486d8d17aeb9f622@mail.gmail.com> <20070514070715.GA82322@hub.freebsd.org> <86646vyimg.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070517124648.GA98052@hub.freebsd.org>
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Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > Remember that unlike Sun, we do not make the hardware our OS runs on, > > nor do we write the firmware for it. > Do you see my email address as being "@sun.com"? No, but ZFS comes from Sun, and Solaris is the only OS that can currently boot from ZFS; therefore the comparison is germane. My point is that it is a lot more difficult for us to implement ZFS support in an OS that is intended to run on everything and the kitchen sink, from the crappiest 486 to the latest quad-core Xeon, with all kinds of crappy disk controllers, than it is for Sun to do the same in Solaris, which mostly runs on hardware designed and manufactured by Sun for the specific purpose of running Solaris. > I really don't understand why you needed to be so inflamatory with > your email, I'm not being inflammatory. I am just pointing out that we have limited resources and what you ask for is a lot of work - more than you probably realize - for little real benefit. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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