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Super interesting, but... We have "Time to first bug" for a lot of file systems (ext4, btrfs, hfsplus, NTFS) covering a wide range of OSes & platforms ... and

by realo 11y ago

Super interesting, but... We have "Time to first bug" for a lot of file systems (ext4, btrfs, hfsplus, NTFS) covering a wide range of OSes & platforms ... and yet not a single word about ZFS? Come on Oracle... you can do better than that.

zdw 11y ago
My understanding is that Oracle's linux devs were behind btrfs before the Sun takeover and thus are boosting that, and also Oracle's lawyers are highly litigious on licensing issues, so they probably view ZFS on Linux like lions circling a carcass.
- SEJeff 11y ago
  Close! Chris Mason wrote btrfs when he started at Oracle (not Sun): http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/06/conversation-chris-mason-btrfs-next-generation-file-system-linux http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/...
- newman314 11y ago
  Conversely, it seems that btrfs lasts only 5s before hitting an issue so I wonder this will drive improvements in that area and how this might affect NASs that use btrfs like Synology.
ryao 11y ago
I am not surprised to see them cover every major filesystem option except ZFS. Oracle does not like to talk about OpenZFS. Not to mention, they could say that they were only testing in-tree file systems.
verbatim 11y ago
> and yet not a single word about ZFS? ZFS is not included in the Linux kernel. Much of this work was about building the infrastructure to be able to perform this kind of test. Trying to do it for file systems that aren't included in Linux is a lot of effort for much less gain.