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I worked in a Solaris shop from 1999-2000.

I'm not insecure, and I'm not mad at ZFS. I'm just pointing out that it showed up when Sun was already circling the drain.

Seamicro managed to pack 2000 cores into 10U. Cool. I've never seen of those, either.

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Yeah, 1-2 years, you must've missed it then. Regardless of the sustainability of corporate strategy, the Solaris kernel team pushed out a solid fs and David and Andy capitalized on it. ZFS is technically great, but like the awesome software no one knows about, tying it to Solaris hardware was a mistake. They should've spun ZFS off as freemium open source (against the wishes of the Solaris team./?) almost like what FreeNAS is now.

I think you're reacting to me saying "I've never seen ZFS in the wild" as "I've never seen a Solaris box in the wild." It sounds like we can agree that "explode" doesn't really cover the story of ZFS adoption.

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