On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:57 +0400, Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > > Personally, I don't see any. Porting zfs to Linux will cost (quite) > some time and effort, but this is peanuts compared to what's needed to > get btrfs (no offense meant) to maturity level/feature parity with > zfs. The only thing that could prevent this is CDDL licensing issues > and patent claims from NTAP over zfs snapshots and other features; > btrfs is free from both. >
In case anyone is interested, ZFS already has been ported to Linux as a FUSE module. A very talented GSoC participant did the port as his project. It works pretty well, but AFAIK it's not quite suitable for a root filesystem yet. Still, much of the hard work has been done. Cheers, Eric
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