Hi Alan, all; and first off, thanks for bringing this to discussion / attention.
Alan Coopersmith schrieb: > Bugs/RFEs work best when they ask for a specific solution - those asking for Sure, from this point of view you're right I guess. From another point of view, however, I am unsure how I eventually can tell how "specific" a solution to ask for actually has to be. > a general improvement with a variety of options tend to fall through the > cracks > with no one knowing who should work on it - the zfs team? the pcfs team? > a non-existent ext3fs for solaris team? In this situation, asking for a general way of easily sharing large files between Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris, I don't think any of the *fs teams are in charge of that, I would consider someone "else" (usability team? interoperability team? ...?) step forth evaluating the options at hand, eventually come up with a feasible solution and re-assign the RFE to whoever they see fit. Other way 'round: Would this RFE have seen better chances by omitting all the options I outlined and just simply focussing on the solution requested, which would be something like "add support for an on-disk file system to share large files between OpenSolaris, Linux, Win32 using external large storage devices"? What would have happened that way? No offense intended - just want to see adding things like these in a more meaningful way in the future. :) Thanks and best regards, Kristian
