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Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month
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.'"
Snow Kitty? Jealous because you can't afford a real computer?
Jealous because you can't afford a real computer?
So that's what they call buying outdated hardware for almost twice the normal price?
When did NTFS get snapshotting? A rather simple feature.
Wow. What a rant from a raving idiot. Last I checked, windows users were still having to 'defrag the drive'. WHAT THE FUCK! That problem was solved in 1967. No one has had to do that since Goldwater was trying to get elected. You claim NTFS is new? WHAT? Are you an idiot? How extremely little do you really know about file systems? Linux has more file systems than ANY OTHER PLATFORM. Linux can support all the latest and greatest NTFS (which is really just a cheap knock off of HPFS which IBM gave to microsoft before microsoft stabbed IBM in the back). If you knew anything at all about Linux or Unix, you would know why Linux can support more kinds of file systems than anyone (including NTFS). There are a lot of filesystems much better than NTFS. It goes beyond B trees, B+ trees, B* trees, dancing trees and the like. It goes beyond whether the basic structure in the tree can be an overloaded object which can take many forms (such as directory, file, socket, pipe or link). Why am I even going on about this. YOU CLEARLY DON"T KNOW ANYTHING about file systems. You've never made one, and all you know is what the juice dispensers at mickeysoft feed you. You are on the juice. You have no brain!
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.
Are you fucking blind or do you not understand the word "tendency"? The OP wasn't implying that only free software has can get stuck at "good enough", so why did you? Oh, because you're a dick.
Turning to a Linux advocate for thoughts on Microsoft is like asking Hitler how he felt about the Jews.
Yeah, Sun has some storage with dedupe that you can buy today, it's called SOLARIS TEN.
Correct, no other open source filesystem offers dedupe. That's what I fucking said: ZFS is useless without dedupe. Who gives a shit? ext3 is perfectly fine; all I lose is the ability to mkfs disks with differing inode sizes--whoop-de-fuckin-do.
2) Oh bullshit. If I try and cut-n-paste what the OSS ZFS filenames look like (or even hand-type them) into this text box, HTML does a terrific job marking it up and making the brackets and "033" all disappear and I'll show you spaces. If I could FORCE UTF8, this would be a moot point, but, guess what, YOU CAN'T because the open-source ZFS doesn't even have that property available, so your argument is invalid.
Read what the fuck I wrote, gym-socks. Here, I speak caveman: "rofl ZFS shit cuz cant copy Télépopmusik from UTF8 ext3 box to ZFS lolz."
Fucking dickAC.