On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bryan Cantrill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> No evidence of either. To me, it is clear that the epicenter of
>> innovation for the core technologies like ZFS, DTrace and Zones has
>> shifted to the community -- but I doubt that Oracle will ever be so
>> self-aware as to come to the same conclusion...
>
> ZFS needs an on disk dataformat and Sun did not create a framework that
> allows
> to have vendor specific enhancements and that supports a distributed
> development.
>
> Did someone think about a format (e.g. similar to the POSIX.1-2001 tar
> extensions) that would allow to implement vendor unique extensions and that
> would allow to ignore some features wile implementing others?
Yes, Matt Ahrens has described his proposal (blessed by the ZFS Working Group)
that addresses this with Feature Flags, which would replace the simple numeric
version numbers.
However, the work to support this isn't done yet, but we expect we will be
using it in illumos soon.
- Garrett
>
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