In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing

Post by noigai » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

wtcactus wrote: post #96

I see a lot of comments here using the terms ZFS and Open ZFS interchangeably. But to my understanding, these are 2 different things. - ZFS is the very stable, non open source project that only works on BSD. - Open ZFS is an effort to rewrite ZFS in a totally open and free format that now runs on Linux. This was the idea I had, but I might be incorrect.

And to complement the other comments, the ZFS developers quit Oracle when it was made proprietary and moved on to work on OpenZFS, which has continued evolving.

Talk by Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

44:16 "[paraphrasing Bryan C.] I told Oracle management if they changed the license, the core ZFS would quit. And they lost all the ZFS team."

Post by grumpyprole » Sat, Dec 09, 2023, 9:44 AM UTC

noigai wrote: post #170

grumpyprole wrote: post #140

A terrifying accusation. I've had both OpenZFS and Btrfs eat my data, luckily I had backups but did lose a few files. XFS is probably the best bet on Linux, it was beautifully designed and implemented by SGI back in the day. Hopefully the ChatGPT generation don't start modifying that code too much.

> XFS is probably the best bet on Linux Yes, agree. However, I also lost files on it (had files overwritten with 0s, as other people already commented here). Also, it's your best bet of you don't need the extra features provided by ZFS. Thanks to its checksum validation, I detected bad SATA cables three times already (on different systems), instead of getting corrupted data. >it was beautifully designed and implement…

It sounds like it's in safe hands, good to know!

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