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It will be interesting to see what happens with btrfs when Oracle now has Solaris and ZFS.

• nailer 16y ago
  Chris Mason pasted about this: according to him, nothing (remember BtrFS is btree based, ZFS isn't).
  • lmz 16y ago
    This post[1] maybe? I just have some difficulty believing Oracle would continue to fund btrfs when they have ZFS. Then again, the code is already out there, the developer can simply move to Red Hat / IBM / Canonical / wherever and continue working if funding is pulled. [1]: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2009/06/22/a-conversation-with-chris-mason-on-btrfs-the-next-generation-file-system-for-linux/ http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2009/06/22/a-...
    • nailer 16y ago
      Why? Asides from the BtrFS having btrees and some (acknowledged by the ZFS developers) better design decisions (see the btrfs wikipedia page), ZFS keeps Solaris customers locked into Solaris and away from Linux.
      • lmz 16y ago
        Oracle owns Solaris now. Why would they not want to lock their customers into Solaris?
        • nailer 16y ago
          Yes. We agree.