From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: Btrfs development plans Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:20:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1240248041.16213.61.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> References: <1240238253.16213.48.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <20090420153118.GB6195@mother.fordon.pl.eu.org> <3da3b5b40904200910x63e4e26cqe058ce0e4bc7f8c8@mail.gmail.com> <2a31deca0904200957v39badd2eu4b26844e78fdcde3@mail.gmail.com> <2a31deca0904201018t3635d08am9397a6d0a18aa1cc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Gregory Maxwell , Ahmed Kamal , linux-btrfs To: Andrey Kuzmin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2a31deca0904201018t3635d08am9397a6d0a18aa1cc@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:18 +0400, Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell = wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal > >> wrote: > >>>> But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. > >>>> Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. > >>>> > >>> > >>> May I suggest the name "ZbtrFS" :) > >>> Sorry couldn't resist. On a more serious note though, is there an= y > >>> technical benefits that justify continuing to push money in btrfs > >> > >> Personally, I don't see any. Porting zfs to Linux will cost (quite= ) > >> some time and effort, but this is peanuts compared to what's neede= d to > >> get btrfs (no offense meant) to maturity level/feature parity wit= h > >> zfs. The only thing that could prevent this is CDDL licensing issu= es > >> and patent claims from NTAP over zfs snapshots and other features= ; > >> btrfs is free from both. > > > > I'm sure that people with far more experience than I will comment=E2= =80=94 > > But considering that BTRFS is in the Linux Kernel today, the histor= ies > > of other imported FSes (XFS), >=20 > Imported file-systems (someone more experienced may correct me if I'm > wrong) have previously been give-aways. Definitely not true. > This one is different - zfs is > in active development, with highly welcomed features like > de-duplication coming. >=20 I can't read the future, or really say the future directions of any of the sun projects. What I do know is that btrfs development will continue, and that Oracle's work on btrfs will not end or decrease. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html