From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 16:22:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F5210656A8 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us) Received: from blade.simplesystems.org (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F2F8FC0C for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8AGMJon019395; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:22:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:22:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn X-X-Sender: bfriesen@freddy.simplesystems.org To: Olivier Smedts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20110909222030.GB40207@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:22:20 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS version 30 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:22:21 -0000 On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Olivier Smedts wrote: > > After having acquired Sun, Oracle said (I think I read that) they > won't change the license of the zfs sources and the developments will > continue like they were, but they'll only disclose sources after a > Solaris launch. Solaris Express is here, but still no Solaris 11. Any > news on that ? Even Solaris 10_u10 got retracted from the Oracle download site. No one knows anything (or will say anything) until there is an official statement from Oracle. It seems likely that Solaris 10_u10 and Solaris 11 will be released with some fanfare in conjunction with new Oracle hardware products (e.g. based on the SPARC T4 CPU). The Oracle "memo" was a leaked internal memo. Oracle has never clarified its intentions regarding OpenSolaris source code releases. We can only hope that Oracle does the right thing and at least releases zfs source code updates in order to avoid fragmentation of the filesystem format. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/