On 11/04/17 10:30, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:23, David Sommerseth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on the >> legal side and doesn't have a too good "open source karma". > > ZFS on Linux is based on OpenZFS (<http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page>). > Oracle has no input into its development as far as I can tell.
Yeah, that /sounds/ like a clean implementation. IANAL and also cannot predict if the Oracle lawyers agree. I have few doubts of the F/L/OSS "pureness" of many of the developers hired by Oracle, working with various upstream communities. But I do fear the intentions and attitudes of the Oracle business side people, including the CEO. ANd also consider that the ZFS name is a registered trademark. But that aside, according to [1], ZFS on Linux was considered stable in 2013. That is still fairly fresh, and my concerns regarding the time it takes to truly stabilize file systems for production [2] still stands. [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS> [2] <https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1704&L=scientific-linux-users&F=&S=&P=15675> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
