On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:22:01PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Newer versions of FreeBSD have newer ZFS code.

Yes, we are at v28 at this point (the lastest open-source version).

> That said, ZFS on FreeBSD is kind of a 2nd class citizen still. [...]

That's actually not true. There are more FreeBSD committers working on
ZFS than on UFS.

> There are vendors who offer NexentaStor on hardware with full commercial
> support from a single vendor (granted they get backline support from
> Nexenta, but do you think ixSystems engineers personally fix bugs in
> FreeBSD?) [...]

iXsystems works very closely with the FreeBSD project. They hire or
contract quite a few FreeBSD committers (FYI I'm not one of them), so
yes, they are definitely in position to fix bugs in FreeBSD, as well as
develop new stuff and they do that.

Just wanted to clarify few points:)

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