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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:03:30 -0300
From: "Rafael C. de Almeida" <almeidaraf@gmail.com>
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CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources)
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Mihai Donțu wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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
>>  From what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal readonly implementation.
> 
> There are a number of fs drivers in the kernel which provide read-only 
> support. The GPL-ed code might not be much (I haven't looked at it), but if 
> someone would spend some time to write a nice, clean patch which can be 
> easily improved, I think there would be at least one user out there who would 
> find it useful.
> 
> Of course, this could open a door for all kinds of incomplete drivers, but 
> these days people seem nuts about ZFS.
> 
> In second thoughts, maybe a fuse based driver would be better. :)
> 

I think there's already work being done for zfs on fuse
(http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE). Not sure how it's going, though.
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