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"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me." - Li
by bromonkey 7y ago
"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me." - Linus
I have a strong feeling Linus has never actually used ZFS.
- jasoneckert 7y agoProbably not, given that statement. There's a reason why nearly everything I deal with today in large enterprise uses ZFS.
- thrownaway954 7y agohis position is about legality, nothing else. I can see his point.
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- mar77i 7y agoI once read this story about the problems trying to support ZFS - was it in the Linux kernel, though? Can't remember. Sadly, I can't seem to be able to dig it up right now, but the article walking readers through the various clashes in constraints between the different systems and implementations was bordering on the humourous.
- ggm 7y agoI also think he took a reasonable licence issue and conflated it with personal opinion not backed by experience. Nobody who has actually run ZFS says its just buzzwords.
- nickik 7y agoThe license issue is not actually so clear. The actual license is a good one. Oracle itself it the bigger problem.
- swebs 7y agoI've never used it. What makes it so good?
- twsted 7y agoDon't know. Certainly about a decade ago the ZFS' chief architect, Jeff Bonwick, and Linus have met: https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/casablanca-v2 https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/casablanca-v2