On 07/14/18 02:50, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:59:58PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>> ZFS is killer technology. zfs-fuse is sawed off. ZOL rocks, but
the license keeps it out of Debian. We'll see if
>> and when btrfs catches up.
>
> (Do you know why your mail client (or perhaps server) wraps at 115
> chars? 72 or 69 or even 80 would be much better...)
I use the package "thunderbird" on Debian 9.4, configured OOTB.
> In stretch I see:
>
> zfs-dracut zfs-dkms zfs-initramfs zfsutils-linux
>
> however they're all in "contrib" rather than main.
Once installed, do they provide the same level of integration as all the
other Debian file systems? The last time I tried ZOL on Debian (6?), it
was a source tarball from LLNL. I needed to write startup and shutdown
scripts. This was somewhat complicated by layering ZOL on top of LUKS.
> Can someone explain if there's an -actual- non-free dependency that
> these packages have, or if it is just the somewhat-incompatibility
> between ZFS CDDL and Linux GPL?
AFAIK, the latter is the deal-breaker -- the GPL and CDDL prevent Linux
distributors, such as Debian, from integrating ZOL into the Linux kernel
OOTB. The end user must go the last mile.
> Since at least zfs-fuse dispels the "is bound to Linux kernel" part.
The last time I tried zfs-fuse, it was a couple ZFS versions old, was
lacking some features I wanted (compression, dedup?), and was a fraction
the speed of ZOL.
David
