Re: [zfs-discuss] Best ways to contribute WAS: Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 31, 2009, at 7:24 AM, m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: Hi Ross, Ross wrote: #3 zfs unlike other things like the build system are extremely well documented. There are books on it, code to read and even instructors (Max Bruning) who can teach you about the internals. My project even

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best ways to contribute WAS: Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-31 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Ross, Ross wrote: #3 zfs unlike other things like the build system are extremely well documented. There are books on it, code to read and even instructors (Max Bruning) who can teach you about the internals. My project even rganized a free online training for this Again, brilli

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best ways to contribute WAS: Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-31 Thread Ross
I'm going to reply because I think you're being a little short sighted here. In response to your 'patches welcome' comment. I'd love to submit a patch, but since I've had no programming training and my only real experience is with Visual Basic, I doubt I'm going to be much use. I'm more likely

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best ways to contribute WAS: Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-07-30 Thread C. Bergström
Rob Terhaar wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed in the past. But its very hard to understand, or even patch incredibly advanced software such as ZFS without a deep understanding of the internals. It will take quite a while before anyone can start understanding a file system which was develop