Something he could do (but won’t) is adopt stable ABIs. And I agree with torvalds that he cannot merge ZFS into linux.
Zfs vs openzfs full#
There might have been a chance to rectify the situation when sun owned ZFS, but that ship has sailed and oracle is much more litigious than sun was, a point that torvalds brings up if you read his full quote. Obviously the license is at odds with the GPL. There’s plenty of demand for ZFS and many operating systems want it… Linus is downplaying the value of ZFS, obviously it is more than a buzzword and there would be lots of value in having it in linux. Maybe he should sit in on one of the monthly OpenZFS Dev Meetings. He’s shot himself in the foot before, but this is beyond sad to see, and so very, very, very wrong that’s it’s embarrassing to the whole Linux dev community. So, in this instance, Linus is talking out of his ass, and really needs to shut up, lock himself in a room, and actually research what, exactly, ZFS, OpenZFS, and ZFS-on-Linux really are. And the ZFS-on-Linux version is actively maintained and works great on multiple Linux distros. Yes, it’s licensed under the CDDL which means it will never be integrated directly into the Linux kernel source tree, but it’s part of the source trees for various other OSes (FreeBSD, Illumos, OpenSolaris, Delphix, TruOS) and hardware storage appliance vendors. There’s a lot of development happening with OpenZFS, and a lot of features have been added since the split with ZFSv28. Recently, the OpenZFS repo was rebased on the ZFS-on-Linux repo (previously, it used the Illumos repo).
Zfs vs openzfs software#
OpenZFS is actively maintained via the OpenZFS repo, and is used by dozens of hardware and software companies around the world. They actively maintain it, and there’s even some new features that have been added over the years (like native encryption). Oracle ZFS is highly proprietary, only runs on Oracle Solaris, and requires big payments from Oracle to access.
They share a common ancestor (ZFSv28 from SUN), but they are no longer compatible, and should not be confused with each other. There’s two separate versions of ZFS: Oracle ZFS and OpenZFS.
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