On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Tim Cook wrote:

Funny (ironic?) you'd quote the UNIX philosophy when the Linux folks have been 
running around since day
one claiming the basic concept of ZFS fly's in the face of that very concept.  
Rather than do one thing
well, it's unifying two things (file system and raid/disk management) into one. 
 :)

Most software introduced in Linux clearly violates the "UNIX philosophy". Instead of small and simple parts we have huge and complex parts, with many programs requiring 70 or 80 libraries in order to run. Zfs's intermingling of layers is benign in comparison.

Bob
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