From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 18:55:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210206025553.GY13701@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACwAiQn-3iNKfzZ4ZJ0VpdWhf3PUD4D5VAHPS4WBv6qrL6UbZw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 06:22:32PM -0800, Rico Pajarola wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> > Thanks; I'd heard that ZFS was a compressed file system, so I stopped
> > right there (I had lots of experience in recovering from corrupted RK05s,
> > and didn't need any more trouble).
> >
> That's funny, for me this is the main reason to use ZFS... What really sets
> ZFS apart from everything else is the lack of trouble and its resilience to
> failures.
I'm gonna call Bill tomorrow and get his take again, that's Bill Moore
one of the two main guys who did ZFS.
This whole thread is sort of silly. There are the users of ZFS who love
it for what it does for them. I have no argument with them. Then there
are the much smaller, depressingly so, group of people who care about OS
design that think ZFS took a step backwards.
I think Dennis might have stepped in here, if he was still with us, and
had some words.
I think Dennis would have brought us back to lets talk about the kernel
and what is right. ZFS is useful, no doubt, but it is not right from
a kernel guy's point of view.
I miss Dennis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-06 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-25 11:10 [TUHS] Favorite unix design principles? Tyler Adams
2021-01-25 12:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-26 2:06 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-01-26 2:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-26 10:22 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-26 12:26 ` John P. Linderman
2021-01-26 15:23 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-26 16:00 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-26 16:13 ` Adam Thornton
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXKjksEpQOMMMQTbcsMvX2thz3WzqjoRWJAsXnZ4Eq_iQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-30 19:01 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 19:50 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-30 20:06 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 21:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-30 21:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 21:45 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 22:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:11 ` [TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-01-30 23:17 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-30 23:31 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] " Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:37 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-30 23:54 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 12:23 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] Re: FreeBSD behind the times? Dermot Tynan
2021-01-31 0:00 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] Re: FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?) Bakul Shah
2021-02-09 2:15 ` [TUHS] " Will Senn
2021-02-09 2:16 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 2:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-01-31 0:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-31 1:47 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 2:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 2:52 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 3:00 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 3:06 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 3:32 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 5:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 6:10 ` Angus Robinson
2021-02-04 7:46 ` Andy Kosela
2021-02-04 22:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 15:45 ` Will Senn
2021-02-04 16:03 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-04 16:32 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-04 16:49 ` Will Senn
2021-02-04 17:46 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 18:41 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-04 22:28 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-04 22:41 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-05 5:17 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 14:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-05 18:16 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-05 18:21 ` ron minnich
2021-02-06 0:03 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-06 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-06 3:01 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-06 1:18 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-06 1:43 ` joe mcguckin
2021-02-06 1:55 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 20:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-06 0:21 ` Brad Spencer
2021-02-06 2:22 ` Rico Pajarola
2021-02-06 2:55 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-02-06 3:07 ` Will Senn
2021-02-27 8:54 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-02-06 4:55 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 7:46 ` Chris Torek
2021-02-04 15:47 ` Will Senn
2021-02-11 21:01 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-01-30 23:09 ` [TUHS] Favorite unix design principles? John Cowan
2021-01-30 23:22 ` Jon Steinhart
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