Folks, As I understand, Oracle will enhance zfs for their upcoming Solaris 11 release (whenever it happens). My question is, are changes to zfs proprietary to Oracle or will they find their way into other OpenSolaris based distributions (Nexenta, IllumOS, etc.)? Is there one agreed-upon central repository for zfs source code? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Peter Taps wrote:> Folks, > > As I understand, Oracle will enhance zfs for their upcoming Solaris 11 release > (whenever it happens). My question is, are changes to zfs proprietary to > Oracle or will they find their way into other OpenSolaris based distributions > (Nexenta, IllumOS, etc.)? Is there one agreed-upon central repository for zfs > source code? >The ZFS being worked on by Oracle is part of the ON consolidation sources and changes since approximately build 147 are, like all other ON sources, only available to Oracle and select partners. -- Rich
> Folks, > > As I understand, Oracle will enhance zfs for their > upcoming Solaris 11 release (whenever it happens). My > question is, are changes to zfs proprietary to Oracle > or will they find their way into other OpenSolaris > based distributions (Nexenta, IllumOS, etc.)? Is > there one agreed-upon central repository for zfs > source code?I don''t know: But I think that ZFS is currently very well tested by many users around the world up to version snv_134. I''m not sure if Oracle has the power to test it so much as thousands of free users. I hope that the future versions of ZFS will not degrade because its no more open. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Thank you for the insight, Rich. As I understand, there is no further development in OpenSolaris beyond 147. If a developer wishes to contribute to zfs, how would it work going forward? Regards, Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:41:36AM -0700, Peter Taps wrote:> Thank you for the insight, Rich. > > As I understand, there is no further development in OpenSolaris beyond 147. If a developer wishes to contribute to zfs, how would it work going forward?FreeBSD will happy to provide home for all useful patches:) -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com pjd at FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-code/attachments/20100917/7e7e0784/attachment.bin>