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Hopefully acquiring Sun will accelerate Oracle's work on btrfs, and we Linux users can get our own copy-on-write system.

• gaius 17y ago
  More likely Oracle will abandon work on BTRFS now that they have real ZFS.
  • sneakums 17y ago
    Yeah, if I were Oracle I'd definitely throw away a native Linux filesystem in the late stages of development and start porting some goofy jock-ware from an alien kernel. But I'm not Oracle and so they're foolishly carrying on with their insane scheme: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/2880 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/2880
    • gaius 17y ago
      Oracle have said that Solaris is the main reason they bought Sun.
      • sneakums 17y ago
        Nothing I have said contradicts this.
      • nailer 17y ago
        Source?
  • nailer 17y ago
    Doubt it: """Theodore Ts'o, developer of ext3 and ext4 filesystems, said that Btrfs “has a number of the same design ideas that Reiser4 had” and that “the filesystem format has support for some advanced features that are designed to leapfrog ZFS.”""
• rbanffy 17y ago
  Sure Larry won't mind giving the world one more reason to abandon the Solaris OS he just bought. This is so Larry...