Re: Btrfs development plans

Andrey Kuzmin
2009-04-20T16:57:10Z

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 btrfs=
=2E
>> 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 (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 and other features;
btrfs is free from both.

Regards,
Andrey

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