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Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-as-magical-as-advertised? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix is reporting that an Indian technology company has been porting the ZFS filesystem to Linux and will be releasing it next month as a native kernel module without a dependence on FUSE. 'In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by this Indian company, they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development & Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing their CDDL source-code as a build-able kernel module for users and ensuring it does not use any GPL-only symbols where there would be license conflicts. KQ Infotech also seems confident that Oracle will not attempt to take any legal action against them for this work.'"

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  1. Freedom ain't free by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How open are the two open source licenses if they prevent you from using the software?

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    1. Re:Freedom ain't free by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      > ZFS's purpose was not to be a next generation file system, but to encourage next generation file systems to be built. Free Software has a tendency to get stuck at "good enough"

      This is a tad ironic considering that a 3rd party had to bail out Sun in this regard.

      Solaris was the perfect example of "rut-ware".

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  2. Useless without dedupe by Zlurg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just ask freenas and openfiler and, heck, even opensolaris
    Oh, and this:
    23212 [root@place]/mnt/Scratch: zfs get utf8only
    bad property list: invalid property 'utf8only'
    Know why? Cuz you don't get any choice in the matter outside Solaris proper.
    Without dedupe and without the ability to use non-UTF8 in filenames (try creating a directory called Télépopmusik in a ZFS pool), ZFS is a future-former. I hear they name filesystems after murderers these days just for the street cred.
    You did not read it here first, but I'll take the heat.

  3. wtf? by sofar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    154 comments and nobody mentions btrfs? Seriously, we don't need zfs anymore... And most definately not some half-assed probably-patent-encumbered version that will never make it upstream - mark my words: it will be unmaintained within 10 minor kernel versions.