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Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth revealed today that they're planning to make ZFS standard on Ubuntu. They are planning to include ZFS file-system as "standard in due course," but no details were revealed beyond that. However, ZFS On Linux contributor Richard Yao has said they do plan on including it in their kernel for 16.04 LTS and the GPL vs. CDDL license worries aren't actually a problem. Many Linux users have been wanting ZFS on Linux, but aside from the out of tree module there hasn't been any luck in including it in the mainline kernel or with tier-one Linux distributions due to license differences.
I've been using ZFS with FreeNAS (BSD-based)on my file server for several years. However, I would never run Ubuntu on a file server even with ZFS. An automatic upgrade for the Nvidia video driver typically hosed the OS drive, forcing me to reinstall Unbuntu and setting up the file server all over again. Ran into that problem for several years before I switched over to the ZFS.