Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932654AbYGQTp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759631AbYGQTpL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:11 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:58678 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758322AbYGQTpK (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:10 -0400 Message-ID: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:45:07 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Fred ." CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 21 Fred . wrote: > Previously we have not been able to have ZFS support due to it being > licensed under the CDDL and the kernel under the GPL. > > Sun have contributed ZFS support to GRUB under the GPL license. We > could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux > kernel. > > http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/zfs_under_gplv2_already_exists Linux needs btrfs upstream more than it needs ZFS... Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/