cromworshipper-fedorastuff@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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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
As I understand it, the repos (including livna & atrpms) do not do any
software development. They have their hands full just building the
package binaries and maintaining the proper versions/etc.
That said, I agree - it would be really awesome if someone made ZFS work
on linux natively. I'd even take a "build your own kernel to make this
work.. here are the patches.. no support.. have fun!" -- but not even
that is likely to happen.
For now, I'm holding my breath for brtfs (which is due a few years from
now, I suppose)
