Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757213AbYGTK5i (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755888AbYGTK51 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:27 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57717 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755863AbYGTK50 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:26 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:57:24 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Message-ID: <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1040 Lines: 23 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:45:07PM -0400, Jeff Garzik 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 > > Linux needs btrfs upstream more than it needs ZFS... Don't be so harsh. Adding a read-only for the start zfs driver for Linux would be useful for various purposes. And adding read-only filesystems to Linux is really easy. So if Fred really cares about it I'd be very happy to mentor him implementing it. IT should be a very good learning exercise for him. -- 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/