Stefan Teleman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 17:41, Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Does anyone see any value in tweaking the infrastructure such that: >> >> WDYT? > > No, I see no value whatsoever in this idea. > > Can you provide a single other example in which the build system for a > particular piece of software relies on a specific and non-portable > filesystem feature ?
I think you're being a bit harsh here, Stefan - as I read Ben's suggestion, he's thinking of an optional feature that could speed up the write-build-test cycle ... ie, not tying anything to zfs, just optimising for zfs *if* it's in use. I think if Ben is willing to do the work and demonstrate that - there is indeed significant improvement to be had from such a change, - this change doesn't break anything else (ie build on UFS), - it's either automatic or as good as, - there's a migration path zfs from ufs *and back*, then IMO why not? cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
