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By: luc_j_bourhis

luc_j_bourhis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:41:30 +0000

One may wonder why Oracle has not made any announcement about ZFS. It would make a lot of sense to change the licensing to a dual BSD-like / GPL, the latter so that Linux can use it in the kernel and the former so that the like of Apple can use it in their semi-proprietary systems. Were they to do that, it would be near instant death for BTRFS of course. But the choice between a system which has been deployed in production systems for years (ZFS) and one which has hardly reached the beta level (BTRFS) would be a no-brainer for Linux distros, I would hope!

By: Apple abandona el proyecto de portar el sistema de archivos ZFS a Mac OS X | Appleismo

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:03:36 +0000

[...] que en breve borrará la lista de correo de desarrolladores y el repositorio de archivos. Por lo que se comenta, el abandono es por motivos legales, y no técnicos, después de la compra de Sun, propietaria del [...]

By: Berend Schotanus

Berend Schotanus — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:58:31 +0000

Nice thing to report not only the successes but also the failures of Apple. What looks promising at first can be disappointing later on. It shows that even for a star class player like Apple innovation is very much a matter of trial and error.

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By: jkundert

jkundert — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:54:38 +0000

Mmm, while the average user wouldn’t be helped much by ZFS, I was one of the minority (with my 20 external HDs) who could have seen massive gains from this technology. I, for one, am very disappointed to hear this news…

By: lmasanti

lmasanti — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:48:35 +0000

Reading the comparison between the two systems, I think that the most important points could be (other than the fact that ZFS is production level and BTRFS is still below-beta):

ZFS
Primary sponsoring company: Sun™
License: CDDL

Primary sponsoring company: Oracle™, RedHat™, HP™, IBM™, Intel™, Novell™and Linux community
License: GPL2

I do not know in detail the difference betwee nhe licenses. but the list of companies seems intersting.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:28:15 +0000

Curious – there’s stories out there that have Nett Apps attacking Sun, not Sun attacking Nett Apps, do you have documentation?