[osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Frank Hofmann
Hi, sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. 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,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Mark Phalan
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 2

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Rainer Orth
Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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, Alternatively, the following more general proposal http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/threa

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rainer Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> 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, > > Alternatively, the following more general p

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. > > We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. +1 of course! Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Eric Lowe
Frank Hofmann wrote: sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. Any reason why we shouldn't have a generic filesystem community? You're proposing a discussion list, plus there is work afoot by yourself and possibl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-28 Thread Eric Lowe
Rainer Orth wrote: Alternatively, the following more general proposal http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=28219渻 might be worth consideration. The ultimate outcome of that discussion was that it was decided that opensolaris-code would not be removed as was planned,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Rainer Orth
Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frank Hofmann wrote: > > sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. > > > > We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. > > Any reason why we shouldn't have a generic filesystem community? You're That's exactly what my

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Rainer Orth wrote: Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank Hofmann wrote: sorry opensolaris-discuss, this originally bounced. Trying again. We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris. Any reason why we shouldn't have a generic filesystem community? You'

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Frank Hofmann wrote: We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris... I'm pretty sure that a mailing list that isn't either a project list or community list is not allowed by current opensolaris policy. So probably the way to go is to change this request so that it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Frank Hofmann wrote: > We're proposing a generic "fs-discuss" for OpenSolaris... > > I'm pretty sure that a mailing list that isn't either a project list or > community list is not allowed by current opensolaris policy. So proba

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Lowe
Rainer Orth wrote: * Therefore, an alternative model would be to use the storage community (given that block and object based storage are getting closer recently, cf. the object storage devices work for SCSI) as an umbrella for both block-based storage (e.g. iscsi, svm projets, maybe others?) and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i.e. create a generic Filesystems community and grandfather the existing > > FS-related communities as projects, maybe adding more related projects at > > the same time. > > While I agree, there is the not-so-small problem that there currently is > no mech

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Lowe
Joerg Schilling wrote: Does this mean you don't like the generic fs community because the current comunity structure is wrong and you cannot change that? Let me try to articulate my concerns a little better. I'm 100% in favor of having an FS community. I've also mentioned many times I would l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-29 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-29 15:12]: > Rainer Orth wrote: > >>* Therefore, an alternative model would be to use the storage community > >>(given that block and object based storage are getting closer recently, > >>cf. the object storage devices work for SCSI) as an umbrella for both

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm overly paranoid, and having an FS community would be just fine > alongside UFS, NFS, and ZFS. There are "forgotten" fs like hsfs and pcfs and they need a home. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EM

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ufs-discuss] Generic "filesystem code" list/community for opensolaris ?

2006-07-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are "forgotten" fs like hsfs and pcfs and they need a home. And there are other generic filesystem questions that need to be discussed. e.g.: Why is there no problem to return more than 255 chars for a path name component with re