On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 19:12 +0200, Frank Hofmann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. > > We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. >
This would be great! +1 -Mark > > Thanks for opinions/remarks, > FrankH. > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Manish Rai Jain wrote: > > > I'd second Frank's proposition. My team ported NTFS (still elementry) to > > Solaris, and we faced a lot of probs as there were not enuf documents by Sun > > or otherwise, _directed_ towards filesystems. Currently, the online > > community (blogs), is also not so vast regarding fs development, so, this > > list would prove really useful. > > > > Manish > > > > > > On 6/16/06, Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> so far, discussing filesystem code via opensolaris means a certain > >> "specialization", in the sense that we do have: > >> > >> zfs-discuss > >> ufs-discuss > >> fuse-discuss > >> > >> Likewise, there are ZFS, NFS and UFS communities (though I can't quite > >> figure out if we have nfs-discuss ?). > >> > >> What's not there is a generic "FS thingies not in either of these". I.e. a > >> forum with the purpose of talking filesystem code in general (how to port > >> a *BSD filesystem, for example), or to contribute and discuss community > >> filesystem patches or early-access code. > >> > >> Internally, we've been having a fs-interest mailing list for such a > >> purpose for decades - why no generic "FS forum" on OpenSolaris.org ? > >> > >> There's more filesystems in the world than just ZFS, NFS and UFS. We do > >> have the legacy stuff, but there's also SMB/CIFS, NTFS, Linux-things, etc. > >> etc. etc.; I think these alone will never be high-volume enough to warrant > >> communities or even discussion lists of their own, but combined there's > >> surely enough to fill one mailing list ? > >> > >> Why _not_ have a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and a fs community > >> that deals with anything that's not [NUZ]FS ? > >> > >> Thanks for some thoughts on this, > >> FrankH. > >> > >> > >> ============================================================================ > >> No good can come from selling your freedom, not for all gold of the world, > >> for the value of this heavenly gift exceeds that of any fortune on earth. > >> > >> ============================================================================ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ufs-discuss mailing list > >> ufs-discuss@opensolaris.org > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Final Year, ABP > > School of Comp. Engg. > > NTU, Singapore > > +65-97960183 > > > > ============================================================================ > No good can come from selling your freedom, not for all gold of the world, > for the value of this heavenly gift exceeds that of any fortune on earth. > ============================================================================ > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
