Comment by tosti

2 months ago

They took the entire Solaris code back to proprietary source and kept improving ZFS themselves. For instance, they added encryption.

> They took the entire Solaris code back to proprietary source and kept improving ZFS themselves.

And OpenZFS/Linux/FreeBSD kept improving ZFS as well.

> For instance, they added encryption.

As did OpenZFS.

Even if Oracle evaporated and their contemporary ZFS source became unencumbered, I doubt OpenZFS would want to try and merge significantly parts. They already have their own encryption implementation for example.