On 2024-01-31, Thelma <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: > On 1/31/24 08:50, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on >>> anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits. >> >> I'll definitely put zfs on my list of things to play with. I've been >> a little reluctant in the past because it wasn't natively supported. I >> don't use an initrd (or modules in general). So, using a filesystem >> that isn't supported in-tree sounded like too much work. > > If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is. > Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux?
My understanding is that the license is incompatible with the Linux kernel's GPL license, so it can't be "built-in" they way that ext4 is. -- Grant