Any code can become abandonware; where it effectively bitrots into
oblivion.
For either ZFS or BTRFS (or any other filesystem) to survive, there have
to be sufficiently skilled developers with an interest in developing and
maintaining it (whether the interest is commercial or recreational).
Honestly, I think both ZFS and btrfs will continue to be invested in by
Oracle.
(The only way I could see this changing would be if there was a sudden
license change which would permit either ZFS to overtake btrfs in the
Linux kernel, or permit btrfs to overtake zfs in the Solaris kernel. I
think from a technical perspective, the latter of those two is
exceedingly unlikely -- if I understand correctly btrfs has a lot of
ground to make up to catch zfs, and zfs continues to receive
improvements and innovation. The only way I could see zfs being
abandoned would be if there were some legal reason why Oracle couldn't
continue to develop it. I don't think that is in the cards, honestly.)
- Garrett
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 19:33 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jerome Warnier
> >
> > Do not forget Btrfs is mainly developed by ... Oracle. Will it survive
> > better than Free Solaris/ZFS?
>
> It's gpl. Just as zfs is cddl. They cannot undo, or revoke the free
> license they've granted to use and develop upon whatever they've released.
>
> ZFS is not dead, although it is yet to be seen if future development will be
> closed source.
>
> BTRFS is not dead, and cannot be any more dead than zfs.
>
> So honestly ... your comment above ... really has no bearing in reality.
>
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