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Re: Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL by ksec on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:50AM (#7521652)
I love ZFS, but Oracle is holding it up which is very annoying.
Re: Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL by kev009 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:28AM (#7521765)
How do you mean? I trust OpenZFS more and in fact would consider it negligent if Oracle wasn't cherry picking OpenZFS bug fixes. Several original Sun engineers including ZFS co-founder Matt Ahrens are involved with OpenZFS.
Re: Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL by bcantrill on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:06AM (#7521871)
Yes, as I have elaborated upon at length[1], the ZFS engineers have long-since left Oracle -- and the open community's ZFS (that is, OpenZFS) has become the ZFS of record.

One clarification: Oracle can't actually cherry-pick back OpenZFS bug fixes because they are (ironically) violating the CDDL by not making available source code. This isn't an issue for the code for which they hold copyright -- but that doesn't include any of the bug fixes and features that we've seen in OpenZFS since 2010. And yes, it is absolutely negligent, but of a different sort than you intended...

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

Re: Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL by kev009 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:22AM (#7521915)
Cheers Bryan, that's a great one of your talks and thanks for the interesting licensing comedy.
Re: Subtly Bad Things Linux May Be Doing To PostgreSQL by octotoad on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:35AM (#7521779)
Do you mean they're holding back progress? With OpenZFS on the scene, it's highly likely that the original Sun/Oracle implementation will become irrelevant to everyone apart from users of Oracle's Solaris releases.