It is a moot point because I do not think this project idea is feasible. On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Things that provide us with improvements over what we have are >> definitely worth consideration as GSoC projects. However, what is >> accepted ultimately depends on not only feedback from a potential >> mentor, but also a vote of Gentoo developers. > > Honestly, this seems like a less-than-ideal fit for Gentoo. We don't > really use ZFS at all, other than as yet another package in our tree. > Any of the Mozilla/ GSoC ideas would make as much sense to deliver as > part of the Gentoo GSoC. > > Now, if this were about integrating auto-snapshots into the package > manager, (like can be done with snapper), etc, then I could see more > relevance (though it probably wouldn't rise to a full project). I > could also see some kind of project to integrate advanced filesystem > features into core elements of our distro across many filesystems > (though I don't really see the relevance for reflinks in particular, > and they only apply to COW filesystems anyway). > > This just seems like a ZFS project, and not like a Gentoo project. > I'd say the same if this were about adding a mute button to tabs in > Chromium, or fixing the offline btrfsck, or whatever. All of those > things would be useful to Gentoo, but only insofar as they'd be useful > to anybody. > > Rich >
