On 9/10/2014 1:33 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
Filesystems are getting increasingly complex due to the increasing demands on them. It takes a lot more work to develop a filesystem than it used to.
That's fine, but they still need to be developed responsibly and without the *problems* of 3.17 in recent times and other issues that get pushed out too quickly or without proper testing. It seems that the whole development is suspect to me.
I've had RAM problems on a system with 4G of RAM running not much apart from Samba. I don't think that zfsonlinux has changed much since then.
Forget Linux, FreeBSD with ZFS ... that's quite different, more stable and with no RAM issues.
ZFS just manages memory differently from anything that was developed for Linux. Changing that would require significant code changes which would be another potential source of stability problems.
ZFS on Linux. Unfortunately, the license issues are a problem with Linux which leads to other issues, but not so with FreeBSD.
The way Debian is going, it is looking like a real option to switch to FreeBSD with a very mature ZFS and to give up on Linux for some use cases and possibly end up not even having to worry about systemd or other things being pushed in to Debian by Red Hat people ever again. I am very sure that these issues will drive many AWAY from Linux in general and Debian in particular!
Systemd wasn't pushed in to Debian by Red Hat or anyone else. The Debian technical committee decided that systemd was the best option.
I've read that it is Red Hat employees moonlighting, but that's not first hand. Still I think that the decision to go systemd is going to do Debian a great deal of damage.
After that decision there were a lot of threats and abuse by some people with obvious mental health problems. But such people don't matter when it comes to making a decision because they lack the intelligence or sanity to contribute to Debian in any way.
Too many people are aggrieved by the change to be just your *bad* type of people here. There is no doubt in my mind that systemd and how it has been handled by Debian is a complete disaster. A.