Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758190AbYGTQ5T (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:57:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757579AbYGTQ5E (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:57:04 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:53209 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757503AbYGTQ5B (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:57:01 -0400 Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) From: Dave Kleikamp To: Kevin Winchester Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:56:51 -0500 Message-Id: <1216573011.8940.21.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 34 On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 09:35 -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote: > As a bonus, being highly inexperienced, I have no > expectations of doing anything correctly, and thus would not react > badly to lots of criticism. That's definitely the right attitude to take. When I ported jfs to linux, I was completely new to Linux and open source, so tried to defer to the experienced developers whenever possible. Christoph was a terrific help, offering a lot of suggestions and patches. JFS is a much better file system because of his help. There have been others contributing code that have not taken criticism so well, and what started out as an offer of help turned into emotional arguments and personal attacks. This really hampers getting your code accepted into the kernel and your ability to work within the community. > So to summarize - if anyone else would like to undertake this work, > they probably should. But if no one has the time/will, then I would > be happy to give it a try. Thanks for offering. I don't know who else may be interested in this, but good luck and thanks to you or whoever takes this up. Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/