On Fri 2019-01-11 06:40:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 06:04:07AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant. Sun explicitly did not > > > want their code to work on Linux, so why would we do extra work to get > > > their code to work properly? > > > > ZoL facilitates seamless r/w cross-mounting with macOS, something no > > other filesystem allows, and that feature is critical for me to work > > on Linux drivers for Mac hardware. Please don't make life harder than > > necessary for developers like me. Your "extra work" argument seems > > disingenuous to me, Sebastian's patch is causing extra work for > > ZFS developers, not the kernel community. The maintenance burden > > for the kernel community to retain the export is zero. > > Sorry, no, we do not keep symbols exported for no in-kernel users.
Killing ZFS is _not_ nice. Its not like ZFS is closed source... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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