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>I don't think there will be any tectonic shifts in userbase Unrelated to this post, I'm quite interested in knowing how Canonical's move has worked out so far
by bubblethink 8y ago
>I don't think there will be any tectonic shifts in userbase
Unrelated to this post, I'm quite interested in knowing how Canonical's move has worked out so far. Does anyone know if they've got customers at any meaningful scale who are using ZoL ? Or is Canonical contributing to ZoL ? There may not be an immediate shift in userbase, but Canonical can certainly make a more comprehensive bid to future customers with their overall offering that also includes ZoL, compared to a specialty storage provider that supports ZFS on FreeBSD.
- kev009 8y agoI think it has mostly lowered the barrier to entry for Linux users already interested in ZFS, which is a good thing for user experience, but I haven't seen Canonical driving any feature dev and they aren't doing extensive backports or uplifts into their LTS distros to stay current with ZoL AFAIK. If they wanted to monetize it better, they could do a spin for the SOHO market that either helped replace proprietary filers the same way FreeNAS does, or highly integrate it into their private cloud stack.