OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop?

echolinux writes "Frustrated by Oracle's refusal to interact with the OpenSolaris community or speak with the OpenSolaris Governing Board, the OGB has issued an ultimatum to Oracle: designate a liaison to the OGB by August 16th or the board will 'take action at the August 23 meeting to trigger the clause in the OGB charter that will return control of the community to Oracle.'"

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Re:Sad

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Yet, btrfs still lacks the awesomeness that is ZFS: RAIDZ. That right there takes the cake. Many people forget, or fail to realize, that ZFS isn't just a filesystem: it's a filesystem with a volume manager, with integrated multidisk redundancy that surpasses both hardware and software RAID in terms of recovery and doesn't-fuck-up (at least by design).

No, Linux mdraid + LVM doesn't cut it. It still suffers from the "RAID write hole" problem, and it suffers significant performance issues due to LVM crappiness and RAID implementations. Really, it's not even close. I could completely do without the snapshots and clones in btrfs if I got more of the RAID-Z functionality of ZFS. (And no, the mirror functionality of btrfs isn't any better.)

Realistically I don't expect anything to catch up anytime soon - ZFS has been around for a while, and has a damn impressive feature list (shit, it's "shortcomings" list is highlighted by the lack of defragmentation ability and being unable to shrink a pool - irritating but by no means show stoppers).