ZFS will gone,FreeBSD will import btrfs?

[Artem Belevich]

> So all we need to direct some of the money we already spend for
> supporting developers and certain developments to core ZFS developers no
> longer employed by Sun/Oracle and that way make FreeBSD the primary ZFS
> development platform for the future. If you have the key developers, the
> community will follow.
>

I'd argue that we'll need pjd@ more than ever.

I don't think that ex-OpenSolaris contributors are going to jump to
FreeBSD. There's project Illumos which is essentially an OpenSolaris
fork minus binary-only bits. My guess is that it's got a decent chance
to become a viable OpenSolaris replacement. Interestingly enough,
Illumos plans to import FreeBSD drivers (and some utils) to replace
closed-source ones that used to come from Solaris.

--Artem



On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Oliver Brandmueller <ob at e-gitt.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:47:00AM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
>> It's not "gone" since Oracle can not withdraw code that is already
>> licensed under CDDL.  They _may_ choose not to release anything new but
>> we already have a newer zfs version that have basic functionality usable
>> in p4.
>
> So all we need to direct some of the money we already spend for
> supporting developers and certain developments to core ZFS developers no
> longer employed by Sun/Oracle and that way make FreeBSD the primary ZFS
> development platform for the future. If you have the key developers, the
> community will follow.
>
> Before someone starts argueing... I know, it's not that easy and I don't
> have a clue how one would do that. This is most probably more like a
> crazy idea than a plan that could actually work :-/
>
> - Oliver
>
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