> > On Feb 19, 2019, at 23:56, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Shawn Webb wrote: > >> At the risk of painting a bikeshed a lovely color of neon purple, I'm > >> curious about if/how these types of commits get merged upstream to > >> (OpenZFS|Illumos|ZFS On Linux|where ever ZFS upstream is now|I'm very > >> confused|is anyone else confused where upstream is?). > >> > >> Who is upstream? Is work like this going to remain as a downstream > >> patch to ZFS? Or is FreeBSD going to work to upstream this type of > >> work? > > > > I've always felt that we should've become upstream to everyone else > > the moment we knew Oracle would eat Sun (20 April 2009), and never > > understood why it didn't happen and now, ten years later, we're talking > > about ZFS on fucking Linux becoming our upstream. Something'd got very > > wrong here and I'd like to know what and why. > > As others have pointed out, FreeBSD has less developer inertia than Linux, > and there are (seemingly) less developers or interested parties in running > an openindiana based stack. > > Also: better OS support for other general purpose infrastructure/usecases > with items like multitenancy via containerization/CGroups2, Java, etc, > and mindshare around this and other things. > > The only thing really holding ZoL back in Linux is the fact that (due > to licensing) it won?t ever be in the Linux kernel.
One can personally link ZoL into your own kernel, and a company/corporate can even do this and run it on 1000's of servers, you just can not distribute it to anyone else, which in the end is not really a big deal, unless your in the Linux distribution business. -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
