Reply to post: Re: @Six_Degrees - You mean btrfs, surely

Does Linux need a new file system? Ex-Google engineer thinks so

admiraljkb

Re: @Six_Degrees - You mean btrfs, surely

@Alan Brown

""Even Oracle Linux doesn't come with ZFS as supported standard.""

"Of course not. If it did they wouldn't be able to charge you 6 figure support fees for ZFS on Solaris."

+1 for Oracle and crazy support fees, but in this case, BTRFS is their green field replacement for ZFS. It started off that way before the Sun acquisition, but continued afterwards. Hence ZFS doesn't come as an official option with Oracle Linux as its considered a bit "legacy" on top of the maneuvering needed for licensing compatibility issues... I wish they'd push more resources onto BTRFS and finish off the last 10% of whats needed.

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