Seems that the bug for ZFS data set encryption is now in a state of "10-Fix Delivered": http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4854202 Via: http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2010/10/zfs-crypto-integrated.html Thank you Mr. Moffat et al. Hopefully the rest of us will be able to bang on this at some point. :)
>>>>> "dm" == David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca> writes:dm> Thank you Mr. Moffat et al. Hopefully the rest of us will be dm> able to bang on this at some point. :) Thanks for the heads-up on the gossip. This etiquette seems weird, though: I don''t thank Microsoft for releasing a new version of Word. I''ll postpone my thanks for 2 years until the source is released, though by then who knows if I''ll still be using ZFS at all. Maybe more appropriate would be: congrats on finally finishing your seven-year project, Darren! must be a huge relief. I''m glad it wasn''t my project, though. If I were in Darren''s place I''d have signed on to work for an open-source company, spent seven years of my life working on something, delaying it and pushing hard to make it a generation beyond other filesystem crypto, and then when I''m finally done, <yoink!>. That''s me, though. I shouldn''t speculate on someone else''s situation. Maybe he signed on under different circumstances, or delayed for different reasons than feature-ambition, or cares about different things than I do. I only mean to make an example of how politics, featuresets, and IT planning interact to make an ecosystem that''s got more complicated implications than just a bulleted list of features and a license with an OSI logo. -- READ CAREFULLY. By reading this fortune, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 304 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20101005/1ce14832/attachment.bin>
On 05/10/2010 20:14, Miles Nordin wrote:> I''m glad it wasn''t my project, though. If I were in Darren''s place > I''d have signed on to work for an open-source company, spent seven > years of my life working on something, delaying it and pushing hard to > make it a generation beyond other filesystem crypto, and then when I''m > finally done,<yoink!>.Please don''t speculate, nobody but me and a very few others inside Oracle have all the facts of why this integrated when it did; and I''m not going to give all the details here because it is neither relevant nor appropriate. For the record I didn''t sign on to an open-source company, I joined Sun many many years before OpenSolaris (in 1996 in fact), I didn''t even join initially as a developer I was in SunService doing backline support and a little sustaining engineering for Trusted Solaris 1.x (the SunOS 4.1.3 era version). One the other before I joined Sun I was one of the first people to have a working "clone" of the then Trusted Solaris privilege system into Linux - for what later became the capabilities system in Linux. While I appreciate open source I''m not against closed source - if I was I wouldn''t have joined Sun in 1996 and I wouldn''t have had my jobs prior to that either (In fact I doubt I''d be in this industry at all). Just because I have and continue to participate in the open where I find it appropriate and useful (to me and others) doesn''t mean I''m an open source or nothing person. Quite the opposite in fact, open source is a "tool" or "means to an end" and one always has to pick the right tool for the job at the right time. I care deeply about software quality and I don''t believe the "ra ra" that just by being open source makes software better quality or more secure. Many eyes can help find bugs but only if there are actually people actively looking. -- Darren J Moffat