Linus: Don't Use ZFS

Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by bromonkey on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:59PM (#22005663)

"Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me." - Linus

I have a strong feeling Linus has never actually used ZFS.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by jasoneckert on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:14PM (#22005833)

Probably not, given that statement. There's a reason why nearly everything I deal with today in large enterprise uses ZFS.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by ggm on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:14PM (#22007637)

I also think he took a reasonable licence issue and conflated it with personal opinion not backed by experience. Nobody who has actually run ZFS says its just buzzwords.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by nickik on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:12AM (#22010165)

The license issue is not actually so clear. The actual license is a good one. Oracle itself it the bigger problem.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by twsted on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:23AM (#22009950)

Don't know.

Certainly about a decade ago the ZFS' chief architect, Jeff Bonwick, and Linus have met:

https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/casablanca-v2

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by thrownaway954 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:15PM (#22005850)

his position is about legality, nothing else. I can see his point.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by mar77i on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:56PM (#22006339)

I once read this story about the problems trying to support ZFS - was it in the Linux kernel, though? Can't remember. Sadly, I can't seem to be able to dig it up right now, but the article walking readers through the various clashes in constraints between the different systems and implementations was bordering on the humourous.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by swebs on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#22009736)

I've never used it. What makes it so good?

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