>Incidentally, I have never understood why they didn't do exactly this; ZFS was superior to anything Linux had at the time, and Oracle would have benefited enor

>Incidentally, I have never understood why they didn't do exactly this; ZFS was superior to anything Linux had at the time, and Oracle would have benefited enormously from shipping ZFS as a first-class feature on OEL I've always figured it's at least partially because someone was too stubborn to give up their work creating btrfs. Though relicensing it to proprietary is Oracle.