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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:18 +0300 From: Mihai Donțu <mihai.dontu@...il.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: "Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) 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. :) -- Mihai Donțu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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