Re: [gentoo-dev] GSoC proposal: cp --reflink support for zfs.

[Richard Yao]

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 <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> 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
>