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Message-ID: <20070417151407.65cda29e@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:14:07 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>
Cc: Ignatich <ignatich@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:44:57 +0400
Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com> wrote:
> Ignatich writes:
> > You might want to look at this discussion:
> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/027041.html
>
> Licenses involved cover file system _code_, rather than storage format
> that is openly specified. Just stand up and implement driver for zfs
> format from scratch under whatever license you want. This is exactly how
> Linux supports "foreign" file systems (ntfs, fat, etc.).
That leaves all the patents Sun have filed to prevent anyone doing so.
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