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Filesystems are HARD, see the plethora of FS's on Linux that are dead, dying, or horribly engineered. This seems like such a monumental waste of resources, time
by X86BSD 9y ago
Filesystems are HARD, see the plethora of FS's on Linux that are dead, dying, or horribly engineered. This seems like such a monumental waste of resources, time, and energy to chase ZFS, which itself is not a stationary target. ZFS is constantly developing new features. I think a lack of ZFS in Linux is hurting it. And that wound will only deepen over time.
- gribbly 9y agoWell obviously Linux devs would love having ZFS in the kernel, Linus even half joked that he'd consider trying to relicense Linux to GPLv3 if it meant he could use ZFS and DTrace (this was back when Sun was considering GPLv3 as the license to use when going open source). But the problem remains, CDDL and GPL are likely incompatible, and Linus has said that no CDDL licensed code will be merged, most likely per advice from lawyers. So unless something drastically changes, ZFS is off the table, and thus work will continue on with alternatives, Stratis is one such alternative, bcachefs is another, and of course btrfs will not die just because Red Hat isn't supporting it anymore, as they barely did to begin with.