Re: porting ZFS

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 18 Sep 2008, at 2:14, Neel Sheyal wrote:
> I must admit that I am not a pundit of ZFS. So, I cannot compare
> intelligently  ZFS with Hammer. But if someone as  experienced like
> Matthew labeled it "hard", then it might be worth revisiting the
> effort. There might be valid reasons for it.


Matthew Dillon has always written write-only code. I'm not surprised
that he finds it hard to read somebody else's code because he hasn't
ready any code for a long time. ;-)

But seriously:
A lot of very good engineers at Sun Microsystems worked on ZFS.
The result is not perfect but has proved to be very useful for
a lot of applications. Based on that I would definitely prefer
ZFS over Hammer.

But NetBSD is an open source project and nobody will object to
a port of ZFS/Hammer because Hammer/ZFS is already in the tree.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/