Larry's considerations are few: He needs to fuel his personal jet, and keep up with the latest in sailboat technology :) He will not be shy, if achieving the above means doing something that will annoy the open source community!
P. On Jun 11, 2010, at 13:04, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > > zfs indeed always sounds like a big powerful monster when you read about it. > > is there any news yet as to how oracle will treat this new asset they > purchased? > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > > > On Friday 11 June 2010 12:33:39 Patrick Okui wrote: >> On 11 Jun, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Noah Sematimba wrote: >>> Eh! So they've managed to backport the stuff NetApp has been doing >>> for a while and put it in the OS. Anyone who has used NetApp will >>> tell you the filer is very much like using FreeBSD and I think it is >>> based on FreeBSD under the hood. >> >> Similar results, different approach. NetApp's filesystem snapshots are >> more like the ZFS readonly snapshots rather than the ZFS read/write >> clones that can be interchangeably swapped to replace the OS's idea of >> the "primary" filesystem. >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8 >> >> I wish Sun's ZFS were license compatible with Linux. It's been a while >> since choice of filesystem could make such a difference in >> possibilities. >> >> -- >> patrick >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any >> way. --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
