[News] Google Sponsors ZFS for GNU/Linux

[Roy Schestowitz]

ZFS Filesystem for FUSE/Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| ZFS is an advanced modern general-purpose filesystem from Sun
| Microsystems, originally designed for Solaris/OpenSolaris.
|
| This project is a port of ZFS to the FUSE framework for the
| Linux operating system.
|
| It was sponsored by Google, as part of the Google Summer of
| Code 2006 program.
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http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE

Some say it's a wonderful FS, but [H]omer begs to differ:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/6607bf3c83d915db/1f8fc253d0ed5d95?lnk=st

Yesterday there was a related announcement from Google:

open source document analysis and OCR system

,----[ Quote ]
| OCRopus is development is sponsored by Google and is initially
| intended for high-throughput, high-volume document conversion
| efforts. We expect that it will also be an excellent OCR system
| for many other applications.
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http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

[[H]omer]

Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> ZFS Filesystem for FUSE/Linux
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | ZFS is an advanced modern general-purpose filesystem from Sun
> | Microsystems, originally designed for Solaris/OpenSolaris.
> |
> | This project is a port of ZFS to the FUSE framework for the
> | Linux operating system.
> |
> | It was sponsored by Google, as part of the Google Summer of
> | Code 2006 program.
> `----
>
> http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE
>
>
> Some say it's a wonderful FS, but [H]omer begs to differ:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/6607bf3c83d915db/1f8fc253d0ed5d95?lnk=st

Surprise, surprise ... almost nothing has changed:

1. ZFS is still distributed under the deliberately anti-GPL CDDL
license [1].
2. ZFS still doesn't support SELinux extended attributes.
3. Oh, ZFS *is* now supported on Linux, if you can stomach the
GPL-hating license.
4. It is still debatable whether ZFS has any real benefits on systems
other than a Trusted Solaris server.
5. Linux still has (arguably) superior filesystems (XFS).
6. Sun still tries to inhibit people's liberties with stupid licenses,
clauses, and export restrictions. Debian still hates the CDDL, as do
I. Sun, overall, are still Black Hats.
7. The benchmarks are in. ZFS loses, XFS wins [2].
8. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/photos/images/_S8W5967-72.jpg
9. Sun seem to have swept their relationship with SCO under the carpet.
Not surprising really - SCO don't have many friends left in the
industry, but some of us have very, very long memories, and will not
easily forget about Sun's historical loyalties, however much they
seem to have mellowed over time.
10. Incredibly, after all this time, Sun *still* do not ship a 64bit
version of the Java plugin!!! How utterly retarded.

[1] The CDDL is deliberately anti-GPL:

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| "Mozilla was selected [as the basis for the CDDL] partially because
| it was GPL incompatible, that was part of the design when they
| released Open Solaris" - Denise Cooper, CDDL author.
`----
- http://tinyurl.com/yzbpyg (Debconf6)
(27 minutes and 27 seconds into the video).

[2] ZFS vs XFS: http://tinyurl.com/2vezkv (csamuel.org)

--
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5
05:06:04 up 13:17, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.21

[Roy Schestowitz]

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 12 April 2007 05:08 \__

Eeeeww... [NSFW]

> 9. Sun seem to have swept their relationship with SCO under the carpet.
> Not surprising really - SCO don't have many friends left in the
> industry, but some of us have very, very long memories, and will not
> easily forget about Sun's historical loyalties, however much they
> seem to have mellowed over time.
> 10. Incredibly, after all this time, Sun *still* do not ship a 64bit
> version of the Java plugin!!! How utterly retarded.

Longest-standing bug report (wishlist) ever... still being pointed at every
now and then. It has become a joke.

> [1] The CDDL is deliberately anti-GPL:
>
> ,----
> | "Mozilla was selected [as the basis for the CDDL] partially because
> | it was GPL incompatible, that was part of the design when they
> | released Open Solaris" - Denise Cooper, CDDL author.
> `----
> - http://tinyurl.com/yzbpyg (Debconf6)
> (27 minutes and 27 seconds into the video).
>
> [2] ZFS vs XFS: http://tinyurl.com/2vezkv (csamuel.org)

:-) Nobody in a cubicle can catch up with an enthusiastic community of field
experts.

--
~~ With kind regards

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