Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-26 Thread Nico Williams
On May 25, 2011 7:15 AM, "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > > You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. [...] True. > [...] In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. I can: the IETF, for example. All busin

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
I actually didn't know that their meetings were totally open. I'm more familiar with IEEE, T10, and similar bodies which are most definitely not open. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 6:12 PM, "Bob Friesenhahn" wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> You are welcom

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/26/11 04:21 AM, Richard Elling wrote: Actually, this doesn't always work. There have been attempts to stack the deck and force votes at IETF. One memorable meeting was more of a flashmob than a standards meeting :-) Is there a video :) The key stakeholders and contributors of ZFS code

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/26/11 12:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. ISO language standards committees may not hold public meetings, bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Richard Elling wrote: The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor interference. Vendors who want to participate in defining an interoperable standard can achieve substantial success. Vendors who only want their own way encounter deafening silence

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Elling
On May 25, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: > >> The standards committees I have observed (I have never been on >> one) are generally in the audio space and not the computer, but while >> they welcome "guests", the decisions are reserved for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: There have been a number of RFC's effectively written by one vendor in order to be able to claim "open standards compliance", the biggest corporate offender in this regard, but clearly not the only one, is Microsoft. The next time I run across one of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Kraus wrote: > There have been a number of RFC's effectively written by one > vendor in order to be able to claim "open standards compliance", the > biggest corporate offender in this regard, but clearly not the only > one, is Microsoft. The next time I run across one of these RFC's I'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: > > > The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor > > interference. Vendors who want to participate in defining an > interoperable > > standard can achieve sub

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The method the IETF uses seems to be particularly immune to vendor > interference.  Vendors who want to participate in defining an interoperable > standard can achieve substantial success.  Vendors who only want their own > way encounter

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: The standards committees I have observed (I have never been on one) are generally in the audio space and not the computer, but while they welcome "guests", the decisions are reserved for the committee members. Committee membership is not open to anyone w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Op 25-05-11 14:27, joerg.moellenk...@sun.com schreef: > > Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end > > everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS > > implementation > > Why? Given that ZFS is S

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. The IETF holds totally open meetings. I hope that you are appreciat

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 25-05-11 14:27, joerg.moellenk...@sun.com schreef: > Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end > everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS > implementation Why? Given that ZFS is Solaris ZFS just as well as Nexenta ZFS just as well as illumos ZFS,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > You are welcome to your beliefs.   There are many groups that do standards > that > do not meet in public.  In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that > *do* hold > open meetings. The standards committees I have observed (I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards > that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies > that *do* hold open meetings. You probybly don't know POSIX. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berli

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread joerg.moellenk...@sun.com
Well, at first ZFS development is no standard body and at the end everything has to be measured in compatibility to the Oracle ZFS implementation. However there is surely a bad aftertaste of such a policy. Someone can't complain about Oracles position to opensource and put the development of Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread C Bergström
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > You are welcome to your beliefs.   There are many groups that do standards > that do not meet in public.  In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies > that *do* hold open meetings. > I think he may mean open to public application. N

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
You are welcome to your beliefs. There are many groups that do standards that do not meet in public. In fact, I can't think of any standards bodies that *do* hold open meetings. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 4:09 PM, "Joerg Schilling" wrote: > "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > >> I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Garrett D'Amore" wrote: > I am sure that the group exists ... I am a part of it, as are many of the > former Oracle ZFS engineers and a number of other ZFS contributors. > > Whatever your proposal was, we have not seen it, but a solution has been > agreed upon widely already, and implementatio

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Casper . Dik
>However, do remember that you might not be able to import a pool from >another system, simply because your system can't support the >featureset. Ideally, it would be nice if you could just import the pool >and use the features your current OS supports, but that's pretty darned >dicey, and I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Garrett D'Amore
This will absolutely remain possible -- as the party responsible for Nexenta's kernel, I can assure that pool import/export compatibility is a key requirement for Nexenta's product. -- Garrett D'Amore On May 25, 2011, at 3:39 PM, "Frank Van Damme" wrote: > Op 24-05-11 22:58, LaoTsao schreef

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/25/2011 4:37 AM, Frank Van Damme wrote: Op 24-05-11 22:58, LaoTsao schreef: With various fock of opensource project E.g. Zfs, opensolaris, openindina etc there are all different There are not guarantee to be compatible I hope at least they'll try. Just in case I want to import/export zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 24-05-11 22:58, LaoTsao schreef: > With various fock of opensource project > E.g. Zfs, opensolaris, openindina etc there are all different > There are not guarantee to be compatible I hope at least they'll try. Just in case I want to import/export zpools between Nexenta and OpenIndiana? -- N

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-May-25 03:49:43 +0800, Brandon High wrote: > >... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta's v30. > > This would be unfortunate but no worse than the current situation > with UFS - Solaris, *BSD and HP Tru64 all have native UFS filesystems, > all of which

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread a . smith
Still i wonder what Gartner means with Oracle monetizing on ZFS.. It simply means that Oracle want to make money from ZFS (as is normal for technology companies with their own technology). The reason this might cause uncertainty for ZFS is that maintaining or helping make the open source v

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Elling
On May 24, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Peter Jeremy > wrote: >> I believe the various OSS projects that use ZFS have formed a working >> group to co-ordinate ZFS amongst themselves. I don't know if Oracle >> was invited to join (though given the way O

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I believe the various OSS projects that use ZFS have formed a working > group to co-ordinate ZFS amongst themselves.  I don't know if Oracle > was invited to join (though given the way Oracle has behaved in all Richard would probably know for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-May-25 03:49:43 +0800, Brandon High wrote: >... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta's v30. This would be unfortunate but no worse than the current situation with UFS - Solaris, *BSD and HP Tru64 all have native UFS filesystems, all of which are incompatible. I believe the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread LaoTsao
Well With various fock of opensource project E.g. Zfs, opensolaris, openindina etc there are all different There are not guarantee to be compatible Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On May 24, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/25/11 07:49 AM, Brandon High wrote: >> O

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hans Rattink
Hi Brandon, Thanks for the details. Sounds to me like Nexenta is in the lead! Kind regards, Hans Rattink 2011/5/24 Richard Elling > On May 24, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Brandon High wrote: > > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Richard Elling > > wrote: > >> There are many ZFS implementations,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Ian Collins
On 05/25/11 07:49 AM, Brandon High wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Richard Elling wrote: There are many ZFS implementations, each evolving as the contributors desire. Diversity and innovation is a good thing. ... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta's v30. That coul

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Elling
On May 24, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Richard Elling > wrote: >> There are many ZFS implementations, each evolving as the contributors desire. >> Diversity and innovation is a good thing. > > ... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta'

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hans Rattink
Thanks all, this cleared up some grey details for me! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > There are many ZFS implementations, each evolving as the contributors desire. > Diversity and innovation is a good thing. ... unless Oracle's zpool v30 is different than Nexenta's v30. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Elling
On May 24, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Hans Rattink wrote: > Hi Erik and Kebabber, > > Thanks for your answers. Do i summarize it right saying: the best conclusion > would be then that Nexenta has it's own version of ZFS and has nothing to > fear of Oracle other ZFS-developpers but that it's uncertain w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D.
yes IMHO, oracle and nexenta are target different customer On 5/24/2011 3:30 PM, Hans Rattink wrote: IMHO, oracle would prefer customer go with ZFS appliance with added WebGUI and all the extra support like Analytics, L2ARc and ZIL with SSD etc Last week i've seen mirrored ZIL upon ZEUS SSD i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hans Rattink
> IMHO, oracle would prefer customer go with ZFS > appliance with added > WebGUI and all the extra support like Analytics, > L2ARc and ZIL with SSD etc Last week i've seen mirrored ZIL upon ZEUS SSD in a Boston NexentaStor solution. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D.
IMHO, oracle would prefer customer go with ZFS appliance with added WebGUI and all the extra support like Analytics, L2ARc and ZIL with SSD etc On 5/24/2011 2:30 PM, Hans Rattink wrote: Hi Erik and Kebabber, Thanks for your answers. Do i summarize it right saying: the best conclusion would

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hans Rattink
Hi Erik and Kebabber, Thanks for your answers. Do i summarize it right saying: the best conclusion would be then that Nexenta has it's own version of ZFS and has nothing to fear of Oracle other ZFS-developpers but that it's uncertain what NetApp might come up with as the details aren't publishe

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/24/2011 8:28 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: The netapp lawsuit is solved. No conflicts there. Regarding ZFS, it is open under CDDL license. The leaked source code that is already open is open. Nexenta is using the open sourced version of ZFS. Oracle might close future ZFS versions, but Nexenta's

[zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Hans Rattink
I have a more generall question about intellectual rights around ZFS, when taking a look at the storage solution NexentaStor. Perhaps not necessary to mention, but to be complete: NexentaStor has created a Open Source SAN solution that runs on commodity hardware. Compellent for example has a NA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-24 Thread Orvar Korvar
The netapp lawsuit is solved. No conflicts there. Regarding ZFS, it is open under CDDL license. The leaked source code that is already open is open. Nexenta is using the open sourced version of ZFS. Oracle might close future ZFS versions, but Nexenta's ZFS is open and can not be closed. -- Thi