I think on this, the big question is going to be whether Oracle continues to release ZFS updates under CDDL after their commercial releases.
Overall, in the past it has obviously and necessarily been the case that FreeBSD has been a '2nd class citizen'. Moving forward, that 2nd class idea becomes very mutable - and ironically it becomes more so in regards to dealing with organizations that have longevity. Moving forward... If Oracle continues to release critical ZFS feature sets under CDDL to the community, then: A) They are no longer pre-releasing those features to OpenSolaris B) FreeBSD gets them at the same time. If Oracle does not continue to release ZFS features sets under CDDL, then then game changes. Pick your choice of operating systems - one that has a history of surviving for nearly two decades on its own with community support, or the 'green leaf off the dead tree' that just decided to jump into the willy-nilly world without direct/giant corporate support. 2nd class citizen issue for FreeBSD disappears either way. The only remaining question would be the remaining crufts of legal disposition. I could for instance see NetApp or somebody try and sue ixSystems, but I have a really, really rough time seeing Oracle/LarryEllison suing the FreeBSD foundation overall or something? Oh yeah - plus BTRFS on the horizon? Honestly - I am not here to start a flame war - I am asking these questions because businesses both big and small need to know what to do. My hunch is, we all have to wait and see if Oracle releases ZFS updates after Solaris 11, and if so, whether that is a subset of functionality or full functionality. - mike On Mar 19, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> 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. > > How is the performance of ZFS under FreeBSD? Is it comparable to that > in Solaris, or still slower due to some needed compatibility layer? > > -- > Fajar > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
