On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 at 08:57 -0700, Barry Roberts wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:20:31PM -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: > > > > Certainly does look cool. Just a brief look at their license (e.g. > > read parts of the license FAQ) looks like it would be fine as a > > separately-distributed module (it may taint the kernel, but nvidia users > > don't care about that). They also say somewhere there that it was > > designed to run in user space (for testing) and kernel space, so that > > sounds like it oughtn't be too hard to mold into a linux module, if the > > necessary access points are there. > > It looks like the user-space stuff was just for testing. You can't > mount a ZFS file system with it running in user space, there's just a > test harness for testing everything except the kernel-only parts.
Naturally, but the fact that they made a testing harness implies that they probably designed it modularly enough that it wouldn't be too hard, for some value of too hard. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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