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ZFS On Linux - It's Alive!
lymeca writes "LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incarnation in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer."
Seriously, not to start a holy war but doesn't this show a limitation of the "openness" of Linux. I mean FreeBSD was able to integrate it into the kernel (more specificaly with geom) because their BSD licensing structure doesn't put limitations on the code. But Linux's GPL seems to restrict development so that code is open as according to GPL... I'm still amazed more people don't complain about the way Linux is licensed and released.
The horse is still alive lets poke it till it moves.