Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System (dustinkirkland.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:58AM from the options-are-good dept.

LichtSpektren writes: Ubuntu developer Dustin Kirkland has posted on his blog that Canonical plans to officially support the ZFS file system for the next Ubuntu LTS release, 16.04 "Xenial Xerus." The file system, which originates in Solaris UNIX, is renowned for its feature set (Kirkland touts "snapshots, copy-on-write cloning, continuous integrity checking against data corruption, automatic repair, efficient data compression") and its stability. "You'll find zfs.ko automatically built and installed on your Ubuntu systems. No more DKMS-built modules!" N.B. ext4 will still be the default file system due to the unresolved licensing conflict between Linux's GPLv2 and ZFS's CDDL.

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First post! by fbobraga · 2016-02-18 01:18 · Score: 0, Troll

* from a ZFS running Windows system (i know... I'm obligatorily using Windows on my work) :P
Re:BTRFS by BitZtream · 2016-02-18 01:24 · Score: -1, Troll

If you pick your file system because its GPL, you're pretty retarded. And yes, retarded is the appropriate word here.

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