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A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04

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> Canonical claims it has taken legal advice and that it is allowed to ship OpenZFS with its Linux.

It is the same as commercial support on FreeBSD with ZFS.

More important is that OpenZFS code is few years behind what is now available in Solaris 11.3 and even more will be in upcoming Solaris 12.

This is causing that whatever is basing on OpenZFS is more and more like toy.

Improvements only in Solaris 11.3 GA are so dramatic (from point of view of scalability and performance) that sooner or later someone trying to use ZFS on Linux will hit the wall.

And what is the difference of using ZFS on the same hardware (enev non-Oracle HW)?

Almost nothing if Solaris is not cheaper!!!

RedHat support on the same hardware is more expensive than Solaris support.

If someone really needs to use ZFS on prod I really don't understand why someone may try to use Linux/Ubuntu.

technological gap between Solaris and any Linux flavor is so big that if someone will really do full compare IMO cannot form conclusion that it make sense to use Linux!!!

DTrace, ZFS, FMA, network layer visualization, zones (non-global and kernel zones) and many more like packaging (how many years will take any Linux distro to develop concept of BEs?) and crucial SUPPORT quality .. all these things somehow is possible to have on Linux is IMO out of the discussion.

Linux on side of Solaris still is only a toy .. and nothing more than toy.

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