Comment by kuon

6 years ago

I don't blame Linus, but I use ZFS a lot.

I'll drop ZFS the moment I have an alternative with the same features:

- disk management with simple commands that can create raids in any modern configuration

- zero cost snapshots

- import/export (zfs send/recv)

- COW and other data integrity niceties

- compression, encryption, dedup, checksums

I am very grateful to the OpenZFS community, and I think they deserve praises for their work. Saying the code is not maintained is quite unfair.

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mindslight  6 years ago

> Saying the code is not maintained is quite unfair

IMO it's best viewed as a legal positioning of professing ignorance such that Oracle's thugs don't go after him for "copying" ZFS features, knowingly developing software that will be mixed with CDDL code, etc.

It's similar to how it's not a good idea for an engineer to read patents.