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Only one reason of Oracle law suite sword hanging over neck. Even if canonical gives guarantee they will fight with Oracle, if a small company is dragged by ora

Only one reason of Oracle law suite sword hanging over neck. Even if canonical gives guarantee they will fight with Oracle, if a small company is dragged by oracle in a court room it's hard to fathom the expenses. So yes there is a need for zfs alternative. So far stayed away from it and using btrfs which works well, except for some RAID limitations.

p_l 7y ago
Fortunately the license Sun applied means any lawsuit would need to attack something much more fundamental, like the very idea of interoperability, as they don't have option to "claw back" any portion of the OpenZFS codebase.
- takeda 7y ago
  Given that they are currently fighting that an API should be copyrightable, doesn't make me confident that they won't do this.
  - p_l 7y ago
    If they do, GPL is fucked anyway. And not just GPL.
    - dragonsh 7y ago
      ZFS is not released under GPL, if it is then it won't be a problem. So there is a need for an alternative and BTRFS works well for me, no need of license encumbered ZFS, not sure of others.