From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:28:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080718102838.GA13767@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487F9D6D.7090808@zytor.com>
On 17.07.2008 12:28, 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.
Which wasn't problem for NTFS, which was RO for years.
RO is still better than nothing, you can copy files from an ZFS.
Bis denn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 19:13 Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Fred .
2008-07-17 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-17 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-17 22:33 ` Mihai Donțu
2008-07-18 2:03 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-18 12:27 ` Patrick Draper
2008-07-18 10:28 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2008-07-17 19:30 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-07-17 19:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-17 20:18 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-20 10:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-20 12:35 ` Kevin Winchester
2008-07-20 16:56 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-07-21 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-21 11:39 ` Kevin Winchester
[not found] ` <f188924b0807210723v3a35de9fgc1565811a0597833@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-21 14:40 ` Kevin Winchester
2008-07-21 14:50 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-22 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-22 8:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-21 15:17 ` jim owens
[not found] <89239e000807230040l7491478fy2ed6a43f9f2fcdb7@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-23 7:46 ` Chen Zheng
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