Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:53:12 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS version 30 Message-ID: <4EC90648.1030102@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EC65454.7040403@FreeBSD.org> References: <4EC64B7E.20406@o2.pl> <4EC65454.7040403@FreeBSD.org>
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Op 18-11-2011 13:49, Martin Matuska schreef: > On 18.11.2011 13:11, Radio młodych bandytów wrote: >> There was a rumour that Oracle was to open source the latest ZFS code >> after Solaris 11 release. Any news about it? >> > The source code released with Orace Solaris 11 does not contain any CDDL > code. > More information here: http://oss.oracle.com/systems-opensourcecode/ > > I personally do not believe that there will be any new release of ZFS > source code in the near future. This depends purely on Oracle. > > We are currently cooperating with Illumos (http://www.illumos.org): > - Illumos has more ZFS developers than we do > - we have been importing bugfixes and new features from Illumos > - we have been reporting bugs and features from our development that > might be of value for Illumos > > This way the code can be reviewed by more eyes and tested in by a > broader userbase. > So it looks like ZFS gets two streams, an oracle one and an opensource one, where zfs version 28 a prior can be used by both solaris and the opensource versions, after that, they become incompatible. what does this mean if oracle releases version 30 or 31 in to the wild. If FreeBSD and illumos go along, it will be much more difficult to implement these version. New patches can conflict and so on. Or is it time to say goodby to the oracle stream of ZFS and go our own way and never look back, even if oracle releases new versions. To bad oracle chooses this path. regards Johan Hendriks
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