Originally posted by polarathene
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They were already part of the OpenZFS project but talking directly to the illumos upstream
The switch is from illumos to ZoL which is the OpenZFS branch about ZFS on Linux and is (unsurprisingly) the more lively and active part of OpenZFS.
That's the same codebase as Linux's ZFS, it won't be that different for obvious reasons.
But it will be better for everyone as they can now get or develop features together with Linux's ZFS (also the reverse is true) instead of waiting for them to upstream it to illumos, waiting ages because it's not a particularly active project, and then pick them up.
For example, if I'm not wrong ZoL has some new cool features that haven't yet landed upstream and with this switch they would get that too.
See my post below about them migrating their "UI and middleware" (i.e. the actual software that runs TrueNAS web interface and system, which runs on top of FreeBSD at the moment) to Debian, as an example of the fact that they are not 100% committed to staying on FreeBSD forever now that they can have ZFS on Linux too.
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