From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57717 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863AbYGTK50 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.