The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD
> In the past few years the vast majority of new development in ZFS has taken place
in DelphixOS and zfsonlinux (ZoL). Earlier this year Delphix announced
that they will be moving to ZoL <a href="https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018" rel="nofollow">https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018</a> This shift means that there will be little to no net new development of Illumos.<p>So, basically, Delphix was a (the only?) commercial user of Illumos and now they're abandoning it for Linux, which means Illumos will starve for manpower going forward?<p>It also sounds like FreeBSD also lacks the resources to maintain an implementation of something like ZFS, which is ironic since not too long ago it seemed like one of the marquee features they had that Linux didn't.