Re: Btrfs development plans

Andrey Kuzmin
2009-04-20T17:18:00Z

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin
> <andrey.v.kuzmin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal
>> <email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com> 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
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