[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

[James Carlson]

Hillel Lubman wrote:
> It's a make it or break it moment. If Oracle holds to their promise to
> release the source especially for ZFS - good. If they will make ZFS closed
> from now on - do you think illumos can manage to pull it through on its own?

Yes, but there are some interesting technical challenges.  One is that
the zpool and zfs version numbering space is flat, so unless the new
on-disk (and in-stream) formats can be reverse-engineered, the
compatibility story will be unusual, to say the least.

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