> fwiw-- 8.1RC2 is at ZFS v14 as well. I think 8.0 > was at 13. > > It's not ZFS per se that I'm hesitant to trust but > rather FreeBSD's implementation. Nothing against the > FBSD developers. Just best to be conservative in the > test of time department when it comes to production > systems and "new features" ;) > > And no, not too far off topic. Good to see that Sun > engineers aren't too "inbred" and keeping abreast. > FreeBSD gets a LOT of stuff right and has done > amazing progress as a true open source project. I > think Open Solaris could learn from it.
Some Solaris/OpenSolaris drivers were ported from *BSD originals. And not only ZFS, but DTrace have been ported to one or more *BSDs and derivatives. The license compatibility (in both directions) certainly helps. But lest folks that prefer GPL view that as some vast conspiracy, remember that the *BSDs and Solaris have common ancestors, whereas Linux was intended from the beginning to be a completely independent implementation with similar functionality. So porting a driver from a *BSD to Solaris might well be easier than from Linux to Solaris (or vice versa), even if the licenses weren't an issue. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
