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OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase

posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the who's-the-boss? dept.

takyon writes:

OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code

On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."

This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).

But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:39AM (#1007223)

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:56AM (#1007235)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:27AM (#1007295)

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