Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-15 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, Jan 12 at 10:00, casper@sun.com wrote:
>>My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
>>are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
>>Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
>>
>>If you wanted native support in Windows or Linux, it would require a
>>significant effort from Sun.
>
>
>Why is that a problem for Windows?  Linux, yes, but if they want they can 
>change that.

Who is "they" ?

It's not a problem, it just is-what-it-is.

The "significant effort" I am referring to is changes to the
licensing, which is a tricky endeavour as soon as you have
contributors instead of a contributor.

Doesn't really matter who changes, or really if anyone changes at all.

--eric


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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Ridd

On 14 Jan 2009, at 10:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> DOS/FAT filesystem implementations in appliances can be found in less
> than 8K code and data size (mostly that's code). Limited functionality
> implementations can be smaller than 1kB size.

Just for the sake of comparison, how big is the limited ZFS  
implementation in grub?

Cheers,

Chris
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Roch Bourbonnais wrote:
> Le 12 janv. 09 à 17:39, Carson Gaspar a écrit :
>
>   
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> 
>>> Fabian Wörner  wrote:
>>>
>>>   
 my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
 It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
 If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
 
>>> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party  
>>> you like
>>> to promote it to does not already use it ;-)
>>>   
>> And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice.
>> Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic
>> devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power,  
>> CPU,
>> and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly  
>> RAM
>> hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a  
>> restricted
>> performance device.
>> 
>
> I have not looked at it recently but for any access greater than ~ 16K  
> ZFS was more efficient than UFS.
> It's just one partial data point but the conventional wisdom that ZFS  
> will use more cpu is not an absolute truth.
>
> Even more so for RAM,  ZFS with 128K record make efficient use of  
> metadata. The only ram it needs to operation is 10 seconds of
> of your workload's  throughput and that can be tuned down in appliances.
>   

DOS/FAT filesystem implementations in appliances can be found in less 
than 8K code and data size (mostly that's code). Limited functionality 
implementations can be smaller than 1kB size.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-13 Thread Roch Bourbonnais

Le 12 janv. 09 à 17:39, Carson Gaspar a écrit :

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Fabian Wörner  wrote:
>>
>>> my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
>>> It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
>>> If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
>>
>> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party  
>> you like
>> to promote it to does not already use it ;-)
>
> And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice.
> Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic
> devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power,  
> CPU,
> and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly  
> RAM
> hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a  
> restricted
> performance device.

I have not looked at it recently but for any access greater than ~ 16K  
ZFS was more efficient than UFS.
It's just one partial data point but the conventional wisdom that ZFS  
will use more cpu is not an absolute truth.

Even more so for RAM,  ZFS with 128K record make efficient use of  
metadata. The only ram it needs to operation is 10 seconds of
of your workload's  throughput and that can be tuned down in appliances.

-r




> Now it _might_ be possible for some of these characteristics to be
> changed with a code re-write targeting small devices, and probably a
> feature-limited zpool/zfs version number, but the effort would be
> non-trivial.
>
> -- 
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Miles Nordin wrote:
>
> but yeah, that OTness aside, Sun's deliberately crafting their brand
> new CDDL license to be incompatible with the GPL isn't exactly in the
> spirit of free software.  BSD is also not in the GPL camp, but the
> mainstream of BSD has altered their licenses where possible to add GPL
> compatibility.  The GPL camp moves in the same direction: the GPLv3
> added changes to slightly improve license compatibility.

After all these years, I am still not sure what is meant by free 
software.  For 99.999% of humanity, "free" means that they don't have 
to pay for it.  For GPL "free" does not pertain to its use by humans 
at all.  Instead "free" for GPL is about preventing the "enslavement" 
of the source code itself ("enslavement" means distribution of 
binaries without source code), as if the source code was a living 
breathing creature.

Due to the ambiguity now associated with the "free", I will prefer the 
term "open source" and use some other term besides "free" to describe 
any encumberances caused by the license.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Richard Elling wrote:
> Carson Gaspar wrote:
>   
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> Fabian Wörner  wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>   
 my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
 It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
 If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
   
 
>>> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party you like
>>> to promote it to does not already use it ;-)
>>> 
>>>   
>> And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice. 
>> Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic 
>> devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power, CPU, 
>> and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly RAM 
>> hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a restricted 
>> performance device.
>>   
>> 
>
> I'm not sure this is a huge hurdle.  There already is a 
> reduced-functionality
> ZFS implementation in grub, which is quite small.  Remember, most of the
> extreme performance features of ZFS would not necessarily be needed in an
> embedded system.
>   

Well, it would be really nice if an open filesystem was adopted on such 
devices. I'm guessing, but I would suspect exFAT (a.k.a. FAT64) which is 
the only current contender, isn't open.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Elling
Carson Gaspar wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>   
>> Fabian Wörner  wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
>>> It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
>>> If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
>>>   
>> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party you like
>> to promote it to does not already use it ;-)
>> 
>
> And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice. 
> Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic 
> devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power, CPU, 
> and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly RAM 
> hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a restricted 
> performance device.
>   

I'm not sure this is a huge hurdle.  There already is a 
reduced-functionality
ZFS implementation in grub, which is quite small.  Remember, most of the
extreme performance features of ZFS would not necessarily be needed in an
embedded system.
 -- richard

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Miles Nordin
> "js" == Joerg Schilling  writes:

js> A GPLd ZFS would however disallow to use it on *BSD and Mac OS
js> X.

and also Solaris.  which is why ZFS would not be GPL'd that way.  It'd
be a choice of license.  I think someone floated the same either/or
license as a ``we'll see'' possibility for the Java source release.

What would happen next is that any improvements Linux developers made
might be GPL-only, because they'd have the right to do that.  In the
case of the atheros code they share with BSD, they supposedly agreed
to dual-either/or-license their improvements, but they don't have to,
and they can change their minds.  If they didn't, and Linux got a
lively ZFS community, then there'd either be huge duplication of
effort or ZFS in Solaris would fall behind to the point that Linux
would become the definitive release.

I agree that's far from ideal.  But Linux developers have the absolute
right to decide how they want to spend their time, and I don't agree
they're being irrational by preferring to work on btrfs than under the
CDDL.  I do agree that their _choice_ isn't a ``problem,'' but I
wouldn't stonewall while holding my breath waiting for them to
suddenly change their minds, either.



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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Miles Nordin
> "tt" == Toby Thain  writes:
> "j" == JZ   writes:

  >  Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.

tt> a lot of seasoned sysadmins would disagree.

Gentoo makes sense for embedded projects.  OpenWRT is arguably
source-based too.  but Gentoo is extremely clumsy to my view: I find
USE flags to be a terrible mistake because they hide bugs and make
dependencies no longer automatic.  It would be a lot more workable if
I had bootable ZFS snapshots in Gentoo to give rollback protection
when doing security-fix updates.

Also I think they don't do enough (any?)  branching for stable
systems---they sort of think they can have ``stable'' and
``experimental'' branches both continually updated, with no tagging,
all the time, which makes all updates equally risky instead of
batching things into major-infrequent and minor-frequent updates.  In
that sense I guess it's just like opensolaris.

but yeah, that OTness aside, Sun's deliberately crafting their brand
new CDDL license to be incompatible with the GPL isn't exactly in the
spirit of free software.  BSD is also not in the GPL camp, but the
mainstream of BSD has altered their licenses where possible to add GPL
compatibility.  The GPL camp moves in the same direction: the GPLv3
added changes to slightly improve license compatibility.

That said I don't really understand why ZFS can't be a Linux kernel
module, since Linus's ``interpretation'' of the GPL has almost reduced
it to LGPL within the kernel.  Why his ``interpretation'' should have
such weight when he doesn't hold all the copyrights I've never
understood either, but so far all these big companies distributing
binary modules seem to take it as law.  This thread seems to say the
same:

 http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-fuse/browse_thread/thread/1219db6af605f792

so, maybe it is not really a license permissiveness issue, so much as
a license preference issue that you cannot convince very many talented
Linux developers to do free work for you unless you give their efforts
the protection of the GPL.  The one willing to work without GPL
protection only offers enough free time to do the easier FUSE port. :)

 j> I like you open folks, much much more than the L-open folks.

(1) don't confuse the people with the license.  In general I get along
better with BSD users, but not their license---I prefer GPL, as
user and developer.

(2) lots of the people here are Sol10 users, of the stable release.
those people are not ``open folks'' at all.

(3) http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon06-drivers/mgp00024.html
it's all about the details.


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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Carson Gaspar
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Fabian Wörner  wrote:
> 
>> my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
>> It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
>> If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
> 
> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party you like
> to promote it to does not already use it ;-)

And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice. 
Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic 
devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power, CPU, 
and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly RAM 
hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a restricted 
performance device.

Now it _might_ be possible for some of these characteristics to be 
changed with a code re-write targeting small devices, and probably a 
feature-limited zpool/zfs version number, but the effort would be 
non-trivial.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Fabian Wörner  wrote:

> my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
> It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
> If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!

If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party you like
to promote it to does not already use it ;-)

Jörg

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Fabian Wörner
my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl.
It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS
If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!!
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Eric D. Mudama"  wrote:

> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.

The BDF folks had some cons against the CDDL but after I had a lobger 
discussion with them, they understood that the CDDL does not hurt them as long 
as the CDDL is not used for essential siftware core software that cannot be 
replaced.

> If you wanted native support in Windows or Linux, it would require a
> significant effort from Sun.

The problem is not the CDDL but the way ZFS and the CDDL is discussed in
the Linux camp.

Even a GPLd ZFS would not change things for Linux

A GPLd ZFS would however disallow to use it on *BSD and Mac OS X.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-12 Thread Casper . Dik


>My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
>are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
>Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
>
>If you wanted native support in Windows or Linux, it would require a
>significant effort from Sun.


Why is that a problem for Windows?  Linux, yes, but if they want they can 
change that.

Casper

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Toby Thain wrote:
>> 
>> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.
>
> Hmmm... a lot of seasoned sysadmins would disagree. A source based 
> distribution has some significant advantages; I would not be surprised if 
> that concept outlives binary packaging and its attendant dependency hell.

I had Gentoo here and have lived to tell the tale.  It would be a tall 
tale indeed if I was to claim to have recieved some sort of scars or 
undue stress from the experience, or even significant discomfort. 
The main issue was with burning CPU building new versions of software, 
but that is much less of an issue now.  I do not claim to be in right 
mind without someone paying me money to do so.

Regardless, I am not aware of anything preventing someone from 
creating a distributable source patch to insert ZFS into the Linux 
kernel, as long as the end user builds and installs their own kernel. 
While it may be difficult for some Linux users to understand, the 
source code is actually available for the Linux kernel.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Toby Thain

On 11-Jan-09, at 3:28 PM, Tom Bird wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
>>> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
>>> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
>>> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
>>
>> Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux) are
>> more significant than the actual licensing issues.  Many/most Linux
>> users could legally use a native optimized kernel implementation of
>> Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so.  GPLv2 only adds
>> restrictions when copying binaries.  A pure source based distribution
>> like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.
>
> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.
>

Hmmm... a lot of seasoned sysadmins would disagree. A source based  
distribution has some significant advantages; I would not be  
surprised if that concept outlives binary packaging and its attendant  
dependency hell.

--Toby

> If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant  
> effort.
>
> I for one would like this to happen.
>
> Tom
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread JZ
yeah, this is ZFS turf.
what Linux folks really care may not be what z-open folks really care...

open folks are not just all in one camp.
I like you open folks, much much more than the L-open folks.

best,
z

- Original Message - 
From: "dick hoogendijk" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS


> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:28:36 +
> Tom Bird  wrote:
> 
>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
>> >> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
>> >> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
>> >> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
>> >
>> > Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux)
>> > are more significant than the actual licensing issues.  Many/most
>> > Linux users could legally use a native optimized kernel
>> > implementation of Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so.
>> > GPLv2 only adds restrictions when copying binaries.  A pure source
>> > based distribution like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.
>> 
>> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.
> 
> Based on ...?
> 
>> If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant
>> effort.
> 
> Why should we want it in linux? It may be that one day linux wants it
> in linux ;-)
> 
>> I for one would like this to happen.
> 
> GPL sucks. At least, that's my opinion. GPL dominion sucks even bigger.
> 
> -- 
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:28:36 +
Tom Bird  wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> >> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
> >> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
> >> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
> >
> > Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux)
> > are more significant than the actual licensing issues.  Many/most
> > Linux users could legally use a native optimized kernel
> > implementation of Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so.
> > GPLv2 only adds restrictions when copying binaries.  A pure source
> > based distribution like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.
> 
> Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.

Based on ...?

> If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant
> effort.

Why should we want it in linux? It may be that one day linux wants it
in linux ;-)

> I for one would like this to happen.

GPL sucks. At least, that's my opinion. GPL dominion sucks even bigger.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Tom Bird
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
>> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
>> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
>> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.
>
> Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux) are
> more significant than the actual licensing issues.  Many/most Linux
> users could legally use a native optimized kernel implementation of
> Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so.  GPLv2 only adds
> restrictions when copying binaries.  A pure source based distribution
> like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.

Nobody in their right mind is using Gentoo.

If you want it in Linux then it has to be a proper GPL compliant effort.

I for one would like this to happen.

Tom
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
>
> My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
> are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
> Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.

Perhaps the philosophical issues of the "other OS's" (i.e. Linux) are 
more significant than the actual licensing issues.  Many/most Linux 
users could legally use a native optimized kernel implementation of 
Sun ZFS if it was offered to them to do so.  GPLv2 only adds 
restrictions when copying binaries.  A pure source based distribution 
like Gentoo has hardly any issues at all.

Bob
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Re: [zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sun, Jan 11 at  5:00, Fabian Wörner wrote:
>Wouldn't it be great if the opensolaris community creates a fs fzfs (for flash 
>zfs) that 
>could be the the filesystem for SDXC cards? Two main point for this are 
>already there 
>Sun is a member of SD Card Association and the code writting smart on a flash 
>should be there as well with stuff of l2arc.
>I think that could give the opensolaris a more visiblie/ markting in the IT 
>space and
>would bring zfs support to even more OSes.
>Please correct me if I am wrong with anything?
>Thanks for reading,
>f.

My impression is not that other OS's aren't interested in ZFS, they
are, it's that the licensing restrictions limit native support to
Solaris, BSD, and OS-X.

If you wanted native support in Windows or Linux, it would require a
significant effort from Sun.

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edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org

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[zfs-discuss] SDXC and the future of ZFS

2009-01-11 Thread Fabian Wörner
Wouldn't it be great if the opensolaris community creates a fs fzfs (for flash 
zfs) that 
could be the the filesystem for SDXC cards? Two main point for this are already 
there 
Sun is a member of SD Card Association and the code writting smart on a flash 
should be there as well with stuff of l2arc.
I think that could give the opensolaris a more visiblie/ markting in the IT 
space and
would bring zfs support to even more OSes.
Please correct me if I am wrong with anything?
Thanks for reading,
f.
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