[Discuss] ZFS

[rajiv at alum.mit.edu (Rajiv Aaron Manglani)]

On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> close-sourced it again.  If you want ZFS, you must either pay snoracle, or
> go use one of the forks which have not received significant development
> effort in approx 1 year.  If you do go use one of the forks, be aware the
> only reason those providers (nexenta, freebsd, illumos, etc) are not getting
> sued is because netapp doesn't consider them a serious threat / not worth
> while to sue.  Albeit very unlikely, it's conceivable that even consumers
> could get sued.  Not just the provider.

any thoughts on http://smartos.org/ ?

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