On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Thomas Lunde wrote: > ZFS' scrubbing, checksums, snapshots, etc. have won me over. It sounds quite nice, but I guess the use of the CDDL license has gotten in the way of its development for Linux because the CDDL is a free-software license but not GPL compatible. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL Apparently, ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems which was bought out by Oracle. So there is an Oracle version, called ZFS, distributed under the CDDL, and there is a "truly open-source successor," called OpenZFS, also distributed under the CDDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS I'm not sure how they differ. In this thread, when people wrote about experiences with ZFS, were they really talking about ZFS or OpenZFS? Or are they almost indistinguishable functionally and in terms of reliability? (Open)ZFS sounds pretty spectacular. I'm sure I'd love to try it. Mike