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I was wondering, how does Illumos fit into all this? Is their ZFS the Oracle-controlled one?
by rehemiau 9y ago
I was wondering, how does Illumos fit into all this? Is their ZFS the Oracle-controlled one?
- cyphar 9y agoillumos is the repo of record for OpenZFS[1], which is the community fork of OpenSolaris' ZFS (which is now proprietary). Most of the really cool new features are in OpenZFS because it has far more developer involvement (from FreeBSD, illumos, etc). [1]: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
- boomboomsubban 9y agoNo, they split when Oracle bought Sun. The only part of OpenZFS, which everything but Solaris uses, that involves Oracle is a number of patents that the CDDL grants permission to use.
- laumars 9y agoNo: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page Illumos is a fork of OpenSolaris: https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home Basically ZFS is Solaris (Oracle), everything else is OpenZFS. And every Solaris-like OS is at best just going to be an OpenSolaris (or derivative) fork.