From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: what is our answer to ZFS?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:17:19 -0600
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On Monday 21 November 2005 05:45, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:59:15 -0800 (PST),
> There're some rumors saying that sun might be considering a linux port.
>
> http://www.sun.com/emrkt/campaign_docs/expertexchange/knowledge/solaris_zfs
>_gen.html#10
>
> Q: Any thoughts on porting ZFS to Linux, AIX, or HPUX?
> A: No plans of porting to AIX and HPUX. Porting to Linux is currently
> being investigated.

Translation: We'd like to dangle a carrot in front of Linux users in hopes 
they'll try out this feature and possibly get interested in switching to 
Solaris because of it.  Don't hold your breath on us actually shipping 
anything.  But we didn't open source Solaris due to competitive pressure from 
AIX or HPUX users, so they don't even get the carrot.

Rob
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