What Linus Torvalds Gets Wrong About ZFS

Ars Technica recently ran a rebuttal by author, podcaster, coder, and “mercenary sysadmin” Jim Salter to some comments Linus Torvalds made last week about ZFS. While its reasonable for Torvalds to oppose integrating the CDDL-licensed ZFS into the kernel, Salter argues, he believes Torvalds’ characterization of the filesystem was “inaccurate and damaging.” Torvalds dips into his own impressions of ZFS itself,…