Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

Posted by timothy on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:26PM 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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Can I remove a disk from it yet? by Daffy+Duck · 2010-08-27 14:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=131604
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=270957
Long story short: disk pools in ZFS can only grow, so don't make any mistakes unless you can afford to do a full dump and restore. Sun had been "working on" this for years. Anyone heard any news lately?