Re: [luv-main] backkuppc and ZFS (was Re: Back ups)

Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:

I was talking to the local FreeBSD people two nights ago, and they say this basically has already happened. The OpenIndiana/Illumos codebase is already merging patches and has become the de-facto head version without Oracle's participation.

http://lwn.net/Articles/445793/ summarizes developments. In short, they are gradually replacing the remaining binary-only components, and no longer depend on a Sun/Oracle proprietary compiler.