<html><head></head><body>I agree with the tree points fully!<br>
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I just don't think 3 is feasable :(<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 26, 2016 8:50:00 AM GMT+01:00, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />I believe it is very good for us to have this discussion, while the zfs<br />maintenance team is still young. And for the record, I am discussing<br />which policy and priorities we should have when deciding which patches<br />to include in the Debian package. I am not discussing individual<br />patches to prepare for a vote for/against including them.<br /><br /> * Everyone seem to agree that we should try to only apply "killer<br /> feature" patches that are important for the users in Debian, or<br /> patches related to Debian integration (like improving or correcting<br /> init.d scripts and systemd configuration). There is some<br /> disagreement about what a "killer feature" is of course.<br /><br /> * Everyone also seem to agree that we should be more reluctant to patch<br /> the kernel part of zfs than the user space part.<br /><br /> * And everyone seem to agree that we should try to push new features as<br /> patches upstream first,
and only include the patches in Debian if the<br /> feature is a "killer feature" that is important to our users when<br /> upstream fail to include it in a timely manner. This will cause<br /> extra work every time a new version of ZFS is released, so we should<br /> not do this a lot to keep the package maintainable.<br /><br />Could these three points form the core of our policy for including<br />patches in the ZFS packages in Debian? Are there other issues we should<br />also consider?<br /><br />Part of the disagreement seem to be about how feasable it is to get some<br />of the ZoL patches included in the ZoL master code, and if the NFS, SMB<br />iSCSI and other fixes are killer features or not. I do not really have<br />an opinion on this, as I have not studied the patches nor tried to use<br />SMB and iSCSI with ZFS. I have tested NFS exporting using /etc/exports,<br />and this work as far as I can tell. In general I agree that it would be<br />nice if the zfs
documentation regarding nfs exports should work in<br />Debian, but I do not know if that is what the patch in question is doing<br />or not.<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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