From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Kuzmin Subject: Re: Btrfs development plans Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:18:00 +0400 Message-ID: <2a31deca0904201018t3635d08am9397a6d0a18aa1cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <1240238253.16213.48.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <20090420153118.GB6195@mother.fordon.pl.eu.org> <3da3b5b40904200910x63e4e26cqe058ce0e4bc7f8c8@mail.gmail.com> <2a31deca0904200957v39badd2eu4b26844e78fdcde3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Ahmed Kamal , linux-btrfs To: Gregory Maxwell Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell w= rote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin > wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal >> wrote: >>>> =C2=A0But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btr= fs. >>>> 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 any >>> 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 needed = to >> get btrfs =C2=A0(no offense meant) to maturity level/feature parity = with >> zfs. The only thing that could prevent this is CDDL licensing issues >> and patent claims from NTAP over zfs snapshots =C2=A0and other featu= res; >> 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 historie= s > of other imported FSes (XFS), Imported file-systems (someone more experienced may correct me if I'm wrong) have previously been give-aways. This one is different - zfs is in active development, with highly welcomed features like de-duplication coming. > and the state of ZFS in FreeBSD this may not be strictly true. This was one-man's effort (though a heroic one, definitely), hardly a case to compare with. Regards, Andrey -- 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