> From: Deano [mailto:de...@rattie.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:16 AM > > So honestly do we want to innovate ZFS (I do) or do we just want to follow > Oracle?
Well, you can't follow Oracle. Unless you wait till they release something, reverse engineer it, and attempt to reimplement it. I am quite sure you'll be sued if you do that. If you want forward development in the open source tree, you basically have only one option: Some major contributor must have a financial interest, and commit to a real concerted development effort, with their own roadmap, which is intentionally designed NOT to overlap with the Oracle roadmap. Otherwise, the code will stagnate. I am rooting for the open source projects, but I'm not optimistic personally. I think all major contributors (IBM, Apple, etc) will not participate for various reasons, and as a result, we'll experience bit rot... As presently evident by lack of zpool advancement beyond 28. So in my mind, Oracle and ZFS are now just like netapp and wafl. Well... I prefer Solaris and ZFS over netapp and wafl... So whenever I would have otherwise bought a netapp, I'll still buy the solaris server instead... But it's no longer a competitor against ubuntu or centos. Just the way Larry wants it. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
