[illumos-Developer] Extending zfs command

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 09:48 -0500, Jason King wrote:
> 2010/8/10 Damian Wojsław <damian at wojslaw.pl>:
> > Quoting Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> >> Introducing a modification of the ZFS command creates a much higher level
> >> of
> >> incompatibility. It seems that we need to first have a basic discussion on
> >> what
> >> Illumos should be and what Illumos should not be.
> >>
> >> Jörg
> >
> > Okay, so I will just implement this thing and keep diffs around in case.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Damian Wojsław
> 
> I'm not sure that's a correct interpretation either.
> 
> Right now, I believe the emphasis is on getting things self-hosting as
> quick as possible.  So projects not in line with that goal are simply
> _for the moment_ less of a priority.  I say go for it, but just
> understand it might be a little while before someone can get to it.
> 
> I think the only things that are really 'not wanted' would be things
> that break binary compatibility (and I don't think this would fall
> under that umbrella).   In fact (with that one restriction), the more
> useful things we create, the more pressure it puts on certain parties
> to interact with us.

To be clear:

I'm not hard and set against changes.  I would prefer to deal with
changes that do not cause arbitrary code drift, and so I would also like
to see changes that are pushed upstream first if possible, or can be
pushed upstream, because it reduces our merge headaches.

Changes that can't go that route will have to be sufficiently
meritorious to justify the extra headache that they will create for
merging.

And yes, right now my priority is on self hosting.

	-Garrett

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