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we've been jerked around for a few years Oracle's ZFS (and Solaris) fork is a deadish end. Most of the interesting action the past couple years has been happen

by dmpk2k 14y ago

we've been jerked around for a few years Oracle's ZFS (and Solaris) fork is a deadish end. Most of the interesting action the past couple years has been happening among a collection of illumos (including critical ZFS members formerly from Sun), FreeBSD, OSX and even Linux hackers. I don't follow their activities closely, except to observe that they've been anything but idle. A lot of work has happened in the meantime, and continues. Hopefully one shows up to comment about it.

newman314 14y ago
List of different versions of ZFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history
natermer 14y ago
Oracle's ZFS is now different then BSD/Linux ZFS. They have become incompatible file systems because Oracle has picked up their ball and taken it back home. For OSS ZFS the only upstream is 'collection of Illlumos'
johnbellone 14y ago
I was running OpenIndiana for awhile at home before I just got tired of trying to hack together a bunch of patches. The problem with having a project that is pseudo OSS is that you can never actually use it seriously, its never reliable and for the most part its going to end in slow quiet death. In my opinion there are a were only a handful of reasons to use Solaris: Oracle, SPARC, ZFS and dtrace. The only reason to use it nowadays is because you can't scale x86 and need big iron for Oracle et al.
- dmpk2k 14y ago
  Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've been happy with SmartOS. It's firmly and solely an OSS server OS, it's easy to use, many of the uglier Solaris legacy bits have been sanded off, and it has a decent package system (pkgsrc). My earlier experiences with Solaris and OpenSolaris were mixed. SmartOS has been uniformly positive. Perhaps give it a try, although be aware that it (like everything illumos) is picky about the hardware.

by dmpk2k 14y ago

newman314 14y ago

List of different versions of ZFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history

natermer 14y ago

Oracle's ZFS is now different then BSD/Linux ZFS. They have become incompatible file systems because Oracle has picked up their ball and taken it back home. For OSS ZFS the only upstream is 'collection of Illlumos'

johnbellone 14y ago

I was running OpenIndiana for awhile at home before I just got tired of trying to hack together a bunch of patches. The problem with having a project that is pseudo OSS is that you can never actually use it seriously, its never reliable and for the most part its going to end in slow quiet death. In my opinion there are a were only a handful of reasons to use Solaris: Oracle, SPARC, ZFS and dtrace. The only reason to use it nowadays is because you can't scale x86 and need big iron for Oracle et al.

dmpk2k 14y ago
Unrelated to the topic at hand, but I've been happy with SmartOS. It's firmly and solely an OSS server OS, it's easy to use, many of the uglier Solaris legacy bits have been sanded off, and it has a decent package system (pkgsrc). My earlier experiences with Solaris and OpenSolaris were mixed. SmartOS has been uniformly positive. Perhaps give it a try, although be aware that it (like everything illumos) is picky about the hardware.