Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:24 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:45:07PM -0400, Jeff Garzik 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 > > Linux needs btrfs upstream more than it needs ZFS...
Don't be so harsh. Adding a read-only for the start zfs driver for Linux would be useful for various purposes. And adding read-only filesystems to Linux is really easy. So if Fred really cares about it I'd be very happy to mentor him implementing it. IT should be a very good learning exercise for him.
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