[illumos-Discuss] multi-extent files

[Garrett D'Amore]

I seriously considered it for illumos, and remain considering it.  The
difficulty is the the author of star is a "challenging" person to deal
with.  Of course, according to him, the fault is entirely mine.

	- Garrett

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 00:36 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Stefan Parvu wrote:
> > Garrett,
> > 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > star could be a nice replacement for tar, pax. Isnt it ? I never understood 
> > why Sun never considered integrating star into Solaris.
> 
> Sun considered it multiple times.
>