From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 16:57:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F9216A401; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from supernews.unixathome.org (supernews.unixathome.org [216.168.29.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D69C13C455; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190471702F; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:57:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from supernews.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (supernews.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id d2cdvsvGhjsB; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [74.104.200.201]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2471702A; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:57:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4834FB851; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Kevin Kinsey Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:56:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <46164384.7702.8932D16@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <4616746A.4030705@daleco.biz> References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org>, <4616746A.4030705@daleco.biz> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:57:36 -0000 On 6 Apr 2007 at 11:25, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of > > which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy > > piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the > > first task is to figure that out and construct a news article along > > these lines. For example, it has volume-management, self-healing, and > > the word "enterprise" can be tossed in easily. > > > And "huge capacity". Well, 'tis definitely a Good Friday, then :-) > > HEADS-UP: Slashdotted. We'll see if they post (dunno why > they wouldn't). Get it posted elsewhere first. Then /. is more likely to pick it up. Try BSDNews, OSNews, etc. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/