Re: Btrfs development plans

Chris Mason
2009-04-20T17:20:41Z

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:18 +0400, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>=
wrote:
> > 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:
> >>>> 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

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