From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 18:57:49 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 8024716A405 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:57:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A2813C4B0 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l36IveVk003740; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:57:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4616981E.3010605@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:57:34 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org>, <4616746A.4030705@daleco.biz> <46164384.7702.8932D16@dan.langille.org> In-Reply-To: <46164384.7702.8932D16@dan.langille.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: advocacy@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 18:57:49 -0000 Dan Langille wrote: > 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. Already on those two. BSDNews dated today, no timestamp. OSNews about the same time as I hit /. -- of course, "still pending" there. Thanks! Kevin Kinsey -- A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis