As an outsider to the vitriol between ZFS and the Linux Filesystem community, why is there so much aggression here? People don't seem to be screaming up and down about NTFS. If you are operating at a scale where this management of data matters, aren't you doing you own analysis and proving?
When ZFS was released, Sun made some strong statements about Linux filesystems, particularly regarding data integrity and ease of management. As a Linux sysadmin with a fairly large amount of data, I thought those were completely warranted but unfortunately some people took it as attacks rather than considering the technical merits. Toss in yet another licensing flamewar and the more vocal parts Linux community wasted a few years pretending the gap would go away if they ignored it.
This is the same reason why Linux doesn't have a viable DTrace competitor: the “what's wrong with kdb?” attitude started with Linus and it took way too long for the near-unanimous sysadmin voice to be heard.
