----- Original Message ----
From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:35:55 PM
Subject: Re: ZFS in Fedora?
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:17 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> In an article in Information Week on November 5, 2007 I read, "What Sun's
> OpenSolaris Means For Open Source
>
> Sun Microsystems has turned its Solaris operating system, which uses the
> next-generation ZFS file system, into an open-source project; free downloads
> are now available. " This is at:
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683
>
> Does this mean that ZFS can be implemented in Fedora? Is anyone aware of a
> port?
Unless they changed some stuff, parts of ZFS aren't GPLv2-compliant (it
was developed under Sun's CDDL), so you really put it in the kernel
without some legal issues. You can use it safely under FUSE, but it'll
be slower than as a kernel module.
From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:35:55 PM
Subject: Re: ZFS in Fedora?
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:17 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> In an article in Information Week on November 5, 2007 I read, "What Sun's
> OpenSolaris Means For Open Source
>
> Sun Microsystems has turned its Solaris operating system, which uses the
> next-generation ZFS file system, into an open-source project; free downloads
> are now available. " This is at:
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683
>
> Does this mean that ZFS can be implemented in Fedora? Is anyone aware of a
> port?
Unless they changed some stuff, parts of ZFS aren't GPLv2-compliant (it
was developed under Sun's CDDL), so you really put it in the kernel
without some legal issues. You can use it safely under FUSE, but it'll
be slower than as a kernel module.
A FUSE module might be usable, but wouldn't it be awesome if the atrpms or livna people provided a kmdl or kmod for it?
BTW, what is the difference between a kmod and a kmdl?
Joh
