From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sun's ZFS and Linux
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:40:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438230B6.8070503@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051119172337.GA24765@thunk.org>
Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:38:16PM +0000, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>
>>On Nov.16, Sun has open sourced the
>>(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/announcements/#2005-11-16_welcome_to_the_zfs_community_
>>) ZFS. I know that, It is licensed under CDDL. So, It is not GPL
>>compatible. In this situation, there is no way for Linux mainline. But
>>I wonder, is there anybody has a plan to port ZFS for Linux as a
>>separate patch ?
>
>
> That wouldn't be a "port", it would have to be a complete
> reimplementation from scratch. And, of course, of further concern
> would be whether or not there are any patents that Sun may have filed
> covering ZFS. If the patents have only been licensed for CDDL
> licensed code, then that won't help a GPL'ed covered reimplementation.
>
What a great chance to try out userfs.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 23:38 Sun's ZFS and Linux Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-19 17:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-11-20 21:12 ` Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-20 23:39 ` Nix
2005-11-21 17:24 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 18:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-21 19:43 ` Tarkan Erimer
2005-11-21 10:11 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-11-21 20:40 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-11-22 14:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
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