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I would love to learn why ZFS and BTRFS are competing to a common-ish goal?

• chungy 3y ago
  ZFS came first and Oracle started btrfs to try to clone it, before they acquired Sun anyway. btrfs has never really matured. It has only a fraction of the features of ZFS and generally a lot more unstable.
  • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    > before they acquired Sun anyway. This is the one that really burns me. There was a moment there where Oracle could have re-licensed ZFS, gotten it merged directly into linux, and had the best file system for their Linux distro. They even did it for dtrace! Instead, whether it was because they were so attached to their own pet project or other reasons, they just did nothing and now we get to live with the consequences forever because they don't own all the copyrights on OpenZFS so they can't even change the license on it now if they wanted. (Strictly, they could relicense their own Solaris code for ZFS, but that would be quite an effort to rework and leave us with two incompatible implementations.)
• yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  They were created by different people at different companies with incompatible licenses for different operating systems. In my personal and very speculative opinion, if BTRFS didn't have a reputation for eating data and ZFS wasn't licensed in a way that's not quite compatible with the Linux kernel, one of them would have won by now.