Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 11:28 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux by and
Parent article: Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

>Now that btrfs is almost production-ready

If you read linux-btrfs it will soon become clear that btrfs is a long, long way from production-ready.

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 15:12 UTC (Thu) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link] (2 responses)

Oracle claims they will use btrfs in their next release of enterprise Linux as production ready file system. They're known for marketing lies, but in this case they're probably saying truth. It looks they're saying goodbye to solaris.

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 16:25 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (1 responses)

<snark>Do you blame them?</snark>

I wouldn't say getting rid of so much as re-closing it back up and making it more for appliances. My perception is that Oracle is keeping Solaris for their really high end stuff such as the Exadata beast[1]. They'd rather be in the business of supporting everything from databases or crm to financials vs generic operating systems.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/exadata/overvi...

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 20:35 UTC (Thu) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

This makes sense for now, but I was talking about the future when btrfs will be marked stable. There won't be any reasons to keep Solaris while you will have everything it offers in Linux + much more.

Oracle offering DTrace for Linux

Posted Feb 23, 2012 22:08 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Maybe they have secret plans about fuse-zfs :)