linux-kernel - Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

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Message-ID: <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:24 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	"Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)

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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