Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:03:30 -0300 | From | "Rafael C. de Almeida" <> | Subject | Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) |
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Mihai Donțu wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Fred . wrote: >>> Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being >>> licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL. >>> >>> Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license. We >>> could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux >>> kernel. >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists >> From what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal readonly implementation. > > There are a number of fs drivers in the kernel which provide read-only > support. The GPL-ed code might not be much (I haven't looked at it), but if > someone would spend some time to write a nice, clean patch which can be > easily improved, I think there would be at least one user out there who would > find it useful. > > Of course, this could open a door for all kinds of incomplete drivers, but > these days people seem nuts about ZFS. > > In second thoughts, maybe a fuse based driver would be better. :) >
I think there's already work being done for zfs on fuse (http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE). Not sure how it's going, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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