Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Alan Cox
2007-04-17T14:11:18Z

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:44:57 +0400
Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.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.