Comment by gigatexal
6 years ago
He mentioned that he didn’t think it was being maintained. It’s more or less been formed no?
Has Linus not seen the work that the OpenZFS folks are doing?
ZFS is amazing and I would soon go to a BSD flavor with a fun set of user land utilities than give it up.
> He mentioned that he didn’t think it was being maintained.
This news would come as a surprise to the folks at LLNL who work on ZoL:
* https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs
* https://zfsonlinux.org/
Maybe meant not maintained by the first party?
ZoL is now the first-party for open sourced ZFS.
>Has Linus not seen the work that the OpenZFS folks are doing?
That's what he meant by Oracle licensing issues. Java API infringement case against Google
He also feels ZFS "was always more of a buzzword than anything else". Yikes.
Honestly, I wouldn't bash him for this comment. Not everyone runs a 10+ TB array at their home for storage and backup purposes.
ZFS doesn't primarily target single disks and small arrays anyway. :)
ZFS made wonders for me with very small servers (appliances) with SSDs that were forced to operate in remote areas on unstable power supply - where other file systems were dropping bytes and bricking them.
It's great on small disks, using ZFS root on solaris 11 in my day job, I can tell you it makes management a lot easier. Patching and rollbacks are like eating a nice dessert.
people probably will, in a few years.
rotational disks are getting cheaper and cheaper, 10TB disks in two years might cost as little as 2TB disks today (i got a 2TB disk for like 50€ off Amazon).
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OpenZFS would still be in danger of a potential Oracle lawsuit.
For what? It's under the CDDL.
API Infringement.
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Isn't that beside the point? OpenZFS is still CDDL.
I think it is besides the point for the risks of merging anything into Linux. He's right on that topic of course.
But it is a separate point he made about using zfs in general, and it's certainly not correct if you take one look at the activity in the zfsonlinux project on GitHub.
Its pretty clear that Linus simply doesn't have a clue about ZFS. And he just exposed himself as somebody that repeats stuff he read in some linux forum or something.
There is no way, after any technical evaluation by himself he would come to those conclusions.