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OpenZFS DTrace illumos. Now, the last one, illumos, is the perfect example of a labor of love: the original company has been assimilated and subsequently des
by Annatar 10y ago
OpenZFS
DTrace
illumos.
Now, the last one, illumos, is the perfect example of a labor of love: the original company has been assimilated and subsequently destroyed, the world at large is overwhelmingly using a competing product, Linux, the competition has seemingly endless time and infinite resources, and yet the kernel engineers persist, even though they quit Oracle, and are working at different companies around the world! On top of that, they managed to come up with revolutionary products which now generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue (Delphix comes to mind).
What kind of love does a person feel to keep working and continue against all odds?
- anilgulecha 10y agoThe reason work continues is largely monetary -- Illumos/OpenSolaris contains compelling technology that the storage industry is ready to pay for. That's not to say that many contributors don't love their work, but it's not a templeOS situation. (I'm an Opensolaris contributor/enthusiast from some years ago, and worked at Nexenta.)
- Annatar 10y agoI know who you are, I'd recognize your name anywhere: you worked on BeleniX with Moinak Ghosh, and you guys literally invented an ISO9660 block optimization algorithm, which then Sun took for OpenSolaris and never recognized you for the amazing work you did... you guys were pioneers, producing the first live ISO of OpenSolaris. If I'm not mistaken, your code and algorithm lives on in live USB and ISO versions of Oracle Solaris. And if I have seen any further, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants. My brothers and sisters in arms are not forgotten; you need no introduction with me, son of UNIX.
- anilgulecha 10y agoIndeed, Moinak's work on the block optimization was phenomenal (and under-appreciated).