[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs only to version 5 after upgrading to oi-151?

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

Oracle never said such thing officially. i think it was part of a
leaked memo written by someone who is no longer employed by them

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oracle have sorta said that they will release all the changes they
> have made to ZFS (and some other changes) after they have finally
> released Solaris 11, because the ZFS was "Open Source" ... and we
> might then be able to incorporate the changes that they have made into
> Illumos ...
>
> However Oracle own the code, so if they want to change the License to
> a non-"Open Source" one, they are probably within their rights ...
>
> I don't usually complain if Samba does not work well with Microsoft
> Windows ... I usually rejoice when it does, likewise I won't expect an
> Open system to mirror one that is currently closed and without
> specification.
>
> Jon
>
> On 8 June 2011 17:08, Bruno Damour <llama at ruomad.net> wrote:
>> Of course it's me, but i think it suggests it's on par with sol 11 express which is snv_151a.
>> As oi_147/8 was based on snv_147/8
>>
>> But as we of course have to get used to oi being a real fork of solaris, why not change the numbering scheme ?
>>
>> Bruno
>> PS : Please, do not think I'm complaining, I'm not
>>
>> ----- Mail Original -----
>> De: "Dan Swartzendruber" <dswartz at druber.com>
>> À: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> Envoyé: Mercredi 8 Juin 2011 17h46:53 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
>> Objet: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs only to version 5 after upgrading to oi-151?
>>
>> Bruno Damour wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Still, this is an (at least for me) important drawback, because that means that there is no possibility to "upgrade" from solaris 11 express.
>>> I thought that the goal was to be compatible with solaris 11 express, and assumed that zfs/zpool versions would also be.
>>> Of course I understand the difficulties, but isn't the numbering (151) slightly misleading ?
>>> AFAIK the base is still snv_148+patches for core elements, even if JDS, etc... is in line with solaris 11 express.
>>>
>> How is this misleading?  I don't see how '151' implies 'zfs/zpool
>> versions at least as new as SE11'?
>>
>>
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