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I can see FreeBSD picking up a good part of the ex-Solaris marketshare in terms of users, but have they really taken over the role in terms of development? As f
by _delirium 10y ago
I can see FreeBSD picking up a good part of the ex-Solaris marketshare in terms of users, but have they really taken over the role in terms of development? As far as I can tell, ZFS in particular has its canonical upstream development in the Illumos repository (Illumos is the successor to OpenSolaris), which FreeBSD pulls from, rather than development having really moved to FreeBSD as the new canonical home. FreeBSD developers are certainly involved in contributing code upstream, but then, so are a number of other developers, including from the major Illumos vendors (OmniTI and Joyent), and even some from ZFSonLinux.
- RantyDave 10y agoSmartOS also has working Linux compatible Zones. Last time I looked, FBSD was a way short of this...
- _delirium 10y agoEven without the Linux-compatible aspect, Illumos Zones are considerably ahead of FreeBSD jails these days imo. Better tooling, resource limiting infrastructure, etc., especially if you want to run multi-tenant with untrusted tenants. Jails did pioneer the concept, though.
- JdeBP 10y agoFocussing on solely ZFS is rather missing jcranmer's point, though, which wasn't about ZFS but was about the level of innovation generally surrounding FreeBSD. As such, where ZFS development lives is not as relevant as where the next such project will arise, and whether it is possible that it will be on FreeBSD.