On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:06 PM, sol <a...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Richard Elling wrote: >> many of the former Sun ZFS team >> regularly contribute to ZFS through the illumos developer community. > > Does this mean that if they provide a bug fix via illumos then the fix won't > make it into the Oracle code?
If you're an Oracle customer you should report any ZFS bugs you find to Oracle if you want fixes in Solaris. You may want to (and I encourage you to) report such bugs to Illumos if at all possible (i.e., unless your agreement with Oracle or your employer's policies somehow prevent you from doing so). The following is complete speculation. Take it with salt. With reference to your question, it may mean that Oracle's ZFS team would have to come up with their own fixes to the same bugs. Oracle's legal department would almost certainly have to clear the copying of any non-trivial/obvious fix from Illumos into Oracle's ON tree. And if taking a fix from Illumos were to require opening the affected files (because they are under CDDL in Illumos) then executive management approval would also be required. But the most likely case is that the issue simply wouldn't come up in the first place because Oracle's ZFS team would almost certainly ignore the Illumos repository (perhaps not the Illumos bug tracker, but probably that too) as that's simply the easiest way for them to avoid legal messes. Think about it. Besides, I suspect that from Oracle's point of view what matters are bug reports by Oracle customers to Oracle, so if a bug fixed in Illumos is never reported to Oracle by a customer, it would likely never get fixed in Solaris either except by accident, as a result of another change. Also, the Oracle ZFS team is not exactly devoid of clue, even with the departures from it to date. I suspect they will be able to fix bugs in Oracle's ZFS and completely independently of the open ZFS community, even if it means duplicating effort. That said, Illumos is a fork of OpenSolaris, and as such it and Solaris will necessarily diverge as at least one of the two (and probably both, for a while) gets plenty of bug fixes and enhancements. This is a good thing, not a bad thing, at least for now. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
