[illumos-Discuss] multi-extent files

[Rich Reynolds]

On 10/24/10 11:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 09:42 -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>>> Of course its *possible*.  Joerg, or anyone else, has only to prepare  a
>>> reasonably formed webrev, properly tested, and meeting the other  basic
>>> integration guidelines, to get it integrated.
>>>
>>> If that patch  depends on integrating some of Joerg's other work
>>> (libschily for example),  its going to take more time and be more
>>> contentious.
>>
>> If memory serves me well, this enhancement is intended to be integrated into
>> the  hsfs driver.
>>
>>> I haven't looked  at this particular set of changes, but so far Joerg has
>>> expressed a general  unwillingness to work on more enhancements on
>>> illumos until we approve his  "star" program for integration.  That's a
>>> particular axe of his to  grind, and "star" has become somewhat
>>> contentious as his goals and those of  illumos are not necessarily
>>> closely matched.
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance, but star ( Jörg's version of tar) should concern
>> OpenIndiana and not Illumos, which is a kernel, right?
>
> IMO, that might be more logical, but we do have other userland utilities
> in illumos-gate.  Joerg has made getting star into illumos-gate one of
> his major goals.  It does seem however, that he's the only person I've
> heard of who has this particular goal or desire.
>
> I may start a "userland" or "supplemental" consolidation using star, and
> certain other things I want to remove from ON (e.g. sendmail, perhaps
> lpsched), in the near future.  There needs to be further discussion
> around this,  however.
>
> 	- Garrett
>
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I would love to see a userland consolidation so that real illumos 
distros can provide a real value add, by having upstreams that are not 
just illumos. seems that most of Gnome fits that model. ;-)

rich