[illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs dependencies

[Dmitry Yusupov]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:08 AM
> To: Dmitry Yusupov
> Cc: Erik Trimble; Cyril Plisko; developer at lists.illumos.org
> Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs
> dependencies
> 
> Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
> > Also, if we want to expand into firmware/embedded space - it is
> > basically a requirement to minimize core execution time as well as
> > memory consumption. Having zfs commands be dependent on Python is
> > ridiculous.
> 
> Talking about python as a major source of memory consumption when
> zfs is in use seems even more ridiculous.   If your embedded system
> is that memory constrained, maybe you should be using UFS instead.

Good point. However, I would rather give that extra to ZFS ARC then have it allocated for something as not necessary as Python.