We do have a major commercial interest - Nexenta. It's been quiet but I do look forward to seeing something come out of that stable this year? :-)
--- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil....@gmail.com - 07905374843 Visit my blog at http://www.khushil.com/ On 5 January 2011 14:34, Edward Ned Harvey < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > 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 >
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