On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:53 AM, sol wrote: >> if a bug fixed in Illumos is never reported to Oracle by a customer, >> it would likely never get fixed in Solaris either > > > :-( > > I would have liked to think that there was some good-will between the ex- and > current-members of the zfs team, in the sense that the people who created zfs > but then left Oracle still care about it enough to want the Oracle version to > be as bug-free as possible.
There is good-will between the developers. And the ZFS working group has representatives currently employed by Oracle. However, Oracle is a lawnmower. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc > > (Obviously I don't expect this to be the case for developers of all software > but I think filesystem developers are a special breed!) They are! And there are a lot of really cool things happening in the wild as well as behind Oracle's closed doors. -- richard -- ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com illumos meetup, Jan 10, 2012, Menlo Park, CA http://www.meetup.com/illumos-User-Group/events/41665962/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
