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A Short History of Btrfs
diegocgteleline.es writes "Valerie Aurora, a Linux file system developer and ex-ZFS designer, has posted an article with great insight on how Btrfs, the file system that will replace Ext4, was created and how it works. Quoting: 'When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander: the code is so complex, the personalities are so exaggerated, and the users are so angry when they lose their data. You can't even settle things with a battle of the benchmarks: file system workloads vary so wildly that you can make a plausible argument for why any benchmark is either totally irrelevant or crucially important. ... we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Btrfs on many levels — technical, political, personal — and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus's root file system.'"
Parent is truthful. Eat it linuxtards!
Zealots, that is who. People so blinded by their ideology that they cannot think about the long-term issues with their license choice.
GPL is okay for end-user stuff, but it is a horrible choice for protocol libraries, programming languages and well, basically any kind of developer used library.
Oh, actually I'm only half right. Sun and other companies use the GPL as a way to tease you into buying their real stuff. Since you can't modify their GPL stuff*, they hope you'll eventually pony up and by their big-boy stuff so you can modify it.
*(well unless you are okay with your own work becoming GPL'd)