[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

[Robert Milkowski]

On 29/09/2010 01:47, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Vincent Fox<vbfox@ucdavis.edu>  writes:
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>>   On 09/28/2010 04:13 PM, Rich Sudlow wrote:
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>>> that being said we're also looking for fileserver alternatives due to
>>> Oracle takeover.
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>> What's your reasoning here?
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>> If anything I'd expect them to put effort into optimizing it
>> which Sun was letting languish recently.
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> Oracle so far appears to be pursuing a general policy of slowly ceasing
> all open source development that Sun was doing.  I'm sure ZFS will
> continue to exist in some form, but I expect the Oracle version of it to
> become a commercial software product you have to license.
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ZFS is the main filesystem for Solaris 11 - you will no longer even be 
able to use UFS for root-fs.
ZFS is the filesystem behind Oracle 7000 series disk arrays.

They have just announced they are going to use Solaris 11/ZFS in their 
future versions of Exadata.

IMHO ZFS is the key platform for Oracle and they already are investing 
in it.

> Oracle is not an open source company and appears to have little to no
> interest in becoming one.
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Why does it matter for you if ZFS is being developed in open or not?

btw: according to the leaked memo Oracle will provide source code for 
Solaris, including ZFS, everytime they produce a new Solaris release. 
This would mean that it will still be open source, but development 
wouldn't happen in open.

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Robert Milkowski
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