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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Re:If it comes out and works well by h4rr4r · 2010-08-27 13:34 · Score: 0, Troll

When did NTFS get snapshotting? A rather simple feature.
Re:Good Article by grepya · 2010-08-27 16:28 · Score: 1, Troll

What's intimidating?
Being a hobbyist OSS developer and getting hit with a patent infringement lawsuit from a large corporation.
bill_mcgonigle -- what you're doing here is the very definition of FUD.