On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:43:53PM -0700, Avi Miller wrote:
On 30/09/2013, at 9:37 PM, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
They're the main copyright holder for both of the current modern/advanced filesystems for unix & linux - zfs and btrfs - and seem to have lost interest in both of them.
This is completely untrue. Both ZFS and btrfs remain at the top of our development priorities.
then they're doing a damn good job of making sure that they have little control or even influence over the direction that future development takes - oracle's actions have pretty much forced illumos to fork zfs, and much of btrfs development seems to be taking place outside of oracle too. which is a shame, because funding and supporting the work on btrfs is one of the really good things that oracle has done. my suspicion is that oracle execs have no idea how to monetise either zfs or btrfs or use them as leverage to control linux, so don't see either as a priority and don't have a clue what to do with either of them. oracle geeks are probably different, but geeks don't make important decisions in corporates like oracle. suits do. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>