Solaris 11.4 Beta was Just Released!!!

Exciting news! Oracle Solaris has just received a new update as one of the only operating systems to ship the ZFS, not to be mistaken with OpenZFS. The ZFS. Ladies and the gentler sex, now is our time to rejoice. The day of reckoning is upon us!!!

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-beta-released

so what's the advantage of Oracle ZFS over OpenZFS?

>>2
it's not written by hobbyists

>>3
so?

>>3
All of ZFS's original authors quit Oracle to work on OpenZFS. When people talk about ZFS, they mean OpenZFS, because that's the standard, and proprietary ZFS is barely maintained as I understand it.

Solaris is shit and so is "the" ZFS
2005 was a long time ago and 1995 even more, Oracle made everything irrelevant.

Why is ZFS so important? All I need EXT4 and a proper backup plan.

>>7
Yes, because enterprise servers and data storage deal with precisely the same workload and issues that you do.

>>6
What about btrfs?--oh, wait, don't answer that.

>>7
Ignoring the fact that you literally lack empathy to a level indicative of being on the spectrum, in strictly one-person, small-scale desktop terms, there's a lot of reasons why you'd want to use a copy on write filesystem like ZFS. I'm not going to lecture you on a topic that's been rehashed over and over again. Just look it up.

>>8,9
Are you implying that you work with enterprise servers? Are you implying that you are writing enterprise grade software systems? I don't write this class of software and I don't write file systems. Hence the questioning: why is ZFS so important? Are you a file system programmer?

are you implying that you work with enterprise dubs? are you implying that you are writing enterprise grade repeating digits? I write this class of digits and I check'em. but why are dubs so important? are you a dubs checker?

>>11
No, no, no, and no.

>>10
I don't have to be anything to know that there's an audience. You asked, "Why is ZFS so important?" Not, "Why is ZFS relevant to me as a desktop user?" There's your answer, you disingenuous prick. Go start a flamewar with someone dumb enough to let you get away with your petty troll tactics.

>>13
I'm trolling in /prog/? I'm not the one who is promoting a closed system in the programming board. There's no hint of programming discussion, only implications of software that users are not allowed to study.

>>14
OpenZFS is free software.

I thought Joyent was working on ZFS these days.

>>5,16
No one of consequence is working on Solaris at Oracle anymore. The team was massively RIF'd last year and key players jumped well before.

Bottom line, Oracle DB and runs fine on Linux now so Oracle sees no return on pushing Solaris. The way the bean counters see it, they can leave Red Hat to do their OS development for free and make up the difference in Solaris license sales by jacking up the price of everything else that would otherwise run on it. They'll ride that pony right into the ground.

>>15
ZFS isn't openZFS

>>18

When people talk about ZFS, they mean OpenZFS, because that's the standard, and proprietary ZFS is barely maintained as I understand it.

Clearly >>8,9 just misinterpreted what you were trying to ask when you said ZFS and interpreted that as the colloquial, general ZFS rather than proprietary ZFS, the latter of which is, as established in this thread, so obscure and irrelevant you need to explicitly specify it in order for people to get what you're saying. In all likelihood proprietary ZFS is probably forked straight from OpenZFS, considering the license permits that. So, uh, ZFS actually is OpenZFS in all practical considerations, you dumdum.