introducing chuck silvers

[Justin T. Gibbs]

On May 29, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:13:53PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Tushar Tambay wrote:
>>> Hi pawel / xin / martin / all
>>> 
>>> Hope you are all doing well.
>>> 
>>> It has been quite a while since we exchanged mail. At HighCloud (
>>> http://www.highcloudsecurity.com) , we released our first VM Centric
>>> Security product (based on freebsd and ZFS) back in October 2011. We are
>>> gaining traction with customers and are continuing to enhance the features,
>>> performance and stability of our product (just released 1.1.5 a couple of
>>> weeks ago).
>>> 
>>> I'd like to introduce Chuck Silvers to this group. He is a former colleague
>>> from Veritas / Symantec's  file systems team and now works with me at High
>>> Cloud Security. Chuck is also a long time netbsd developer (but don't hold
>>> that against him  :-))
>>> 
>>> Chuck has been looking at ZFS performance and stability issues for us and
>>> wanted to share  a couple of interesting results with this group. I'll let
>>> him speak about them himself.
>> 
>> Welcome Chuck and congratulations on your FreeBSD/ZFS-based product!
>> 
>> I added your e-mail to the list. Let me know if you received it.
> 
> hi pawel,
> 
> I got it, thanks.
> 
> we have a number of patches to freebsd that we're using, most of which
> modify parts of the system other than ZFS, should I just submit those as PRs?
> or post them to whichever freebsd-* mailing list seems the most appropriate?
> the few that are ZFS-specific I'll send here shortly.
> 

PRs often (unfortunately) get lost.  If you can provide an enumeration of your
changes, I can introduce you to a committer that works in that area to help get
the changes into the tree.  Longer term, we should figure out how to make you
a committer. :-)

--
Justin