Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Samuel
/* Catching up on email */ On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:27:39 pm Eric Anopolsky wrote: In case anyone is interested, ZFS already has been ported to Linux as a FUSE module. A very talented GSoC participant did the port as his project. A GSoC student who got employed by Cluster Filesystems to do

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-21 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:38:57 -0400 Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 18:10 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote: But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. May I suggest the name

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-21 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:38:57 -0400 Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote: The short answer from my point of view is yes.  This doesn't really change the motivations for working on btrfs or the problems we're

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-21 Thread ashford
Dmitri now that ZFS' IP has been imported into Oracle You write as though this is a completed task. In reality, there are several hurdles (as seen from the IBM offer), and it will take at least six months to get to the point that you assume has been complete. To EFFECTIVELY merge the IP will

Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Mason
Hello everyone, Just a quick note about the recently announced purchase of Sun by Oracle. This does not change Oracle's plans for Btrfs at all, and Btrfs is still a key project for us. Please, keep your btrfs contributions and testing coming ;) -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:37:33AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: Hello everyone, Just a quick note about the recently announced purchase of Sun by Oracle. This does not change Oracle's plans for Btrfs at all, and Btrfs is still a key project for us. But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Ahmed Kamal
 But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. May I suggest the name ZbtrFS :) Sorry couldn't resist. On a more serious note though, is there any technical benefits that justify continuing to push money in btrfs

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 18:10 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote: But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. May I suggest the name ZbtrFS :) Sorry couldn't resist. On a more serious note though, is there any

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote:  But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible. May I suggest the name ZbtrFS :) Sorry couldn't resist. On a more serious note

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin andrey.v.kuz...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote:  But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS with btrfs. Just kidding, I don't think it would be technically feasible.

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin andrey.v.kuz...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com wrote:  But now Oracle can re-license Solaris and merge ZFS

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:18 +0400, Andrey Kuzmin wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Andrey Kuzmin andrey.v.kuz...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Ric Wheeler
Chris Mason wrote: Hello everyone, Just a quick note about the recently announced purchase of Sun by Oracle. This does not change Oracle's plans for Btrfs at all, and Btrfs is still a key project for us. Please, keep your btrfs contributions and testing coming ;) -chris Just to chime in

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Elsayed
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: snip Personally, I don't see any. Porting zfs to Linux will cost (quite) some time and effort, but this is peanuts compared to what's needed to get btrfs (no offense meant) to maturity level/feature parity with zfs. The only thing that could prevent this is CDDL