Am 20.02.2013 09:21, schrieb Jiri B:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:32:02AM +0100, Matthias Appel wrote:
And by talking of ZFS, why not consider
ext3/4,reiser,xfs,jfs,ntfs,whatever-fs to be ported to OpenBSD?
Where are the diffs? For example real improvement would be FAT/NTFS
speed on OpenBSD, as it is much much slower than on Linux.
There are two main differences:
*ZFS was open source (FSF would say free) until Oracle acquired Sun (and
now, ?nobodys? knows, how it's licensed.....but licensing does not
matter, as long as there is no code release from Oracle)
AFAIK no other FS has undergone such dramatic change both in licensing
and information policy.
*IMHO ZFS hast to be reversed, just like NTFS. There has to be
compatibility between Oracles ZFS and the free versions of it. If this
is none, we are not talking about ZFS on *NIX, this would be ZFS-ish.
And reversing the whole thing is much work.Reversing NTFS pays off,
because there are bazillions of NTFS formatted HDDs out there, so the
potential user base is quite big.
But ZFS, how big is the user base for ZFS?
What I did not know is, that Oracle dropped the trademark for ZFS in
late 2011.
Why would they do this?
Regards,
Matthias
