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The challenge here is that ZFS is dominate by Oracle right now, and if anyone thinks that Oracle is going to act in the best interest of the community, rather t

The challenge here is that ZFS is dominate by Oracle right now, and if anyone thinks that Oracle is going to act in the best interest of the community, rather then killing the golden goose to peel the meat off it's bones, take a look at what Oracle has done with Java recently. Or what they did with Solaris. Or what they do with Oracle Cloud. in addition, we know that there are patent landmines out there because NetApp and Oracle have a (undisclosed) settlement on the issue. Using ZFS is a probably good way to get a visit from your legendary friendly Oracle sales agent and auditor. Oracle could fix all of this with a quick re-license or patent indemnification, but they haven't and almost certainly won't. My Synology (and all modern Synologies) uses BTRFS, and it seems pretty solid so far. I would have preferred that ZFS had matured and been dominate in FS, but there are some really risky things that come with ZFS.

snuxoll 8y ago
ZFS is not dominated by Oracle, Open-ZFS is the source of record for anything other than Solaris and critical features are being added that Oracle cannot use without opening their branch back up under the CDDL. The CDDL also includes a patent agreement, Oracle can’t retroactively waive it.
- InTheArena 8y ago
  Every single one of your statements was also true of Java. Go look at what the Java community is going through right now.
  - simion314 8y ago
    >Go look at what the Java community is going through right now. You did not understand what happened with the latest Oracle Java news and you are spreading FUD. People have a choice what Java implementation to use, they can pay for latest Oracle implementations, use Open JDK (it is included in Debian and most distributions), you can get support from RedHat and other big vendors. There is no risk of getting in trouble by using Open JDK, MS and Google had trouble because they "forked" Java

snuxoll 8y ago

ZFS is not dominated by Oracle, Open-ZFS is the source of record for anything other than Solaris and critical features are being added that Oracle cannot use without opening their branch back up under the CDDL. The CDDL also includes a patent agreement, Oracle can’t retroactively waive it.

InTheArena 8y ago
Every single one of your statements was also true of Java. Go look at what the Java community is going through right now.
- simion314 8y ago
  >Go look at what the Java community is going through right now. You did not understand what happened with the latest Oracle Java news and you are spreading FUD. People have a choice what Java implementation to use, they can pay for latest Oracle implementations, use Open JDK (it is included in Debian and most distributions), you can get support from RedHat and other big vendors. There is no risk of getting in trouble by using Open JDK, MS and Google had trouble because they "forked" Java