On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Bill Hacker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully more 'good stuff' will be ported out of Solaris before it hits the > 'too costly vs the alternatives' wall and is orphaned.
Btrfs has been merged into mainline Linux now, and although it's pretty far behind ZFS in completeness at the moment, it represents a far greater degree of flexibility and power. In a couple of years when it's stable and user friendly, high-end storage solutions will move back to Linux, after having given Sun a lot of contracts due specifically to ZFS. So Sun's options are to GPL/BSD ZFS and hope it gets used more so they have some relevance left, or somehow attempt to be able to compete with Linux and BSD's development pace and massive head start. I think it's pretty clear where that'll go. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia
