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I'm so sad. I was in the btrfs corner for over a decade, and it saddens me to say that ZFS has won. But it has.

And ZFS is actually good. I'm happy with it. I don't think about it. I've moved on.

Sorry, btrfs, but I don't think it's ever going to work out between us. Maybe in a different life.

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I’m personally cheering for Bcachefs now.

What saddens me is the fact they still haven't managed to put ZFS into the Linux kernel tree because of licensing nonsense.

It's not Linux's fault for not merging ZFS. Blame Oracle.

I know. I was blaming Oracle, and Sun before them. Why can't they just relicense the entire thing as GPL or some other license that's actually open source and GPL-compatible such as MIT? They own the copyright, don't they? Surely they have the power to do that.

ZFS is too important to not be in Linux. Yet it's 2024 and it's still not in there. Because of licensing copyright nonsense. The blame falls solely on the copyright owners.

> I'm so sad. I was in the btrfs corner for over a decade, and it saddens me to say that ZFS has won. But it has.

> And ZFS is actually good. I'm happy with it. I don't think about it. I've moved on.

> Sorry, btrfs, but I don't think it's ever going to work out between us. Maybe in a different life.

ZFS has had a worse bug not even 4 months ago. They are both very good filesystems, bugs happen

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