Talk:OpenZFS

References to primary sources
OpenZFS has been recently started as a project, so it's still quite uncommon to find 2nd or 3rd party reviews, discussions etc. I've found three such sources, and will be adding them soon. Of course, all additions are more than welcome. -- Dsimic (talk) 11:18, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Here are some secondary/tertiary sources, in case you are not already aware of them:
 * Infostor
 * The Register
 * Phoronix — :Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.50.216 (talk) 00:17, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! I've already seen one or two of these (theregister.co.uk and phoronix.com) and unfortunately they're providing too general info, making them not so good as references.  But, the page on infostor.com &mdash; which is new to me &mdash; is quite good!  I already went ahead and modified the article to also include this Infostor reference.
 * What we still need here is a good 2nd/3rd-party reference covering the history of ZFS and its open source implementations. Having that incorporated, removing the "better references needed" tag would be clearly possible. -- Dsimic (talk) 00:48, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. :) -- Dsimic (talk) 19:06, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

OpenZFS vs. ZFS
I added a new section about the differences between OpenZFS and the closed source ZFS, but that was deleted by the admin. I think there is a interest in knowing the differences between them? What are the feature set that differs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.253.165.28 (talk) 11:06, 8 January 2016‎ (UTC)


 * Hello! As noted in, your addition was unreferenced and of somewhat questionable nature; in other words, it would need a broader context to be actually usable to the readers.  Could you, please, let me see the sources you've used? &mdash; Dsimic (talk &#124; contribs) 11:11, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent changes to the article
Hello, ! As already noted in, please don't get me wrong but you seem slightly confused. For example, Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution) can't include OpenZFS simply because there's no OpenZFS as a software component; instead, OpenZFS is a movement, or an umbrella project, which serves to organize and put other real projects (that is, actual open-source ZFS implementations) on the same page.

Furthermore, the whole thing with Ubuntu and ZFS is currently more of a legal-related controversy than something oriented toward adding new value to the Linux ecosystem as a whole. As such, it doesn't provide much encyclopedic value and shouldn't be a significant part of the article until the whole thing clears out. Maybe mentioning it briefly would fit well, I'll see to introduce that into the section a bit later. That's my opinion. &mdash; Dsimic (talk &#124; contribs) 13:31, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * By the way, this article from The Register also misinterprets OpenZFS as an actual ZFS implementation. &mdash; Dsimic (talk &#124; contribs) 16:08, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Here's on describing the situation with Ubuntu's inclusion of ZFS on Linux, together with some unrelated wording improvements.  This description is as neutral and close to the sources as possible, and I hope you'll agree that it makes us covered. &mdash; Dsimic (talk &#124; contribs) 16:49, 3 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello Dsimic, I think the OpenZFS themselves use it for both (e.g. "Download distributions that include OpenZFS", hardly referes to the project but the software). I also think this makes sense, because refering to the "Open source" ZFS and the Oracle ZFS fork both as "ZFS" is more confusing. (here they desribe OpenZFS as the sum of the open source forks)Shaddim (talk) 18:21, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, I disagree with this removal: this had nothign to do with the ZFS/OpnZFS naming confusion. Infact, this is content whcih should be included. Shaddim (talk) 18:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

RFC: merging or reorganizing ZFS and OpenZFS to more accurately represent the implementations of ZFS
Please see Talk:ZFS.

Thank you!

FT2 (Talk 19:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

May 2020
Anyone interested please see Talk:Oracle ZFS where a new option presented may affect the OpenZFS article. Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 11:38, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The more pertinent part is now at Talk:Oracle ZFS. Djm-leighpark (talk) 12:32, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

zfs freebsd port timeline
ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org Fri Apr 6 02:58:34 UTC 2007 Previous message: [head tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sun4v Next message: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Hi.

I'm happy to inform that the ZFS file system is now part of the FreeBSD operating system. ZFS is available in the HEAD branch and will be available in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE as an experimental feature.

Commit log:

Please welcome ZFS - The last word in file systems. ZFS file system was ported from OpenSolaris operating system. The code in under CDDL license. I'd like to thank all SUN developers that created this great piece of software. Supported by:	Wheel LTD (http://www.wheel.pl/) Supported by:	The FreeBSD Foundation (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/) Supported by:	Sentex (http://www.sentex.net/) 73.89.21.151 (talk) 03:54, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Porting began to Freebsd in 2006
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 * I started porting the ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system.
 * There is a lot to do, but I'm making good progress, I think.
 * I'm doing my work in those directories: 73.89.21.151 (talk) 04:05, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 2009 ZFS "production ready" with release of FreeBsd 8
 * FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Announcement
 * Date: November 25, 2009
 * The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Some of the highlights:
 * ZFS is no longer in experimental status. 73.89.21.151 (talk) 04:18, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

REDIRECT of "ZFS on Linux" and "Native ZFS Linux port" here
Both lemmas redirect to "OpenZFS#Distributions" which no longer exist. That's pretty bad, since "ZFS on Linux" attracted a lot of development. AFAIR there were two major implemenations: kernel module and as FUSE. User:ScotXW t@lk 09:39, 13 February 2024 (UTC)