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They canceled those plans long before Oracle was even thinking of buying Sun. It's more a classic case of Apple's "not invented here"
by chungy 3y ago
They canceled those plans long before Oracle was even thinking of buying Sun.
It's more a classic case of Apple's "not invented here"
- babypuncher 3y agoAPFS wasn't publicly unveiled until 2017, did it really spend more than 7 years in active development before then?
- chungy 3y agoProbably. File systems are hard to make sure to get just right. ZFS took just about 5 years to mature into a production release. From its inception in 2000 to production release in 2005. Oracle's btrfs (their attempt at competing with ZFS) began in 2008. Still isn't mature.
- veidr 3y agoWell, even Sun was wedded to the (shit-the-bed) CDDL, but before Oracle there was the sense that a one-off deal might be made. Once Oracle bought Sun, it was like "Which is more important, your filesystem or your OS?" Which isn't a hard question with regards to any filesystem I've ever used except ZFS. Seems insane to use anything else for long-term storage, unless it has some kind of high corporate budget.