Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:54:26PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? There are some work in progress from http://zfsonlinux.org/, but the posix layer was still lacking last I checked

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:54:26PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? There are some work in progress from

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-13 Thread Malte Schirmacher
On 12.02.2011 18:18, David E. Anderson wrote: I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? Thre are currently three different ways, to get ZFS working on linux. First the implementation by kqstore. They largly used the work from

[zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-12 Thread David E. Anderson
I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? -- David ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-12 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:18:26AM -0800, David E. Anderson wrote: I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? Probably using this[1]. Ray [1] http://kqstor.com/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-12 Thread C. Bergström
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:18:26AM -0800, David E. Anderson wrote: I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? Probably using this[1]. doubtful.. It's more likely based on http://zfsonlinux.org/

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2011-02-12 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
I see that Pinguy OS, an uber-Ubuntu o/s, includes native ZFS support. Any pointers to more info on this? There are some work in progress from http://zfsonlinux.org/, but the posix layer was still lacking last I checked Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47)

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2010-08-29 Thread Anurag Agarwal
Hi Erik, Thanks for clarifying it. You are absolutely right. It is a limited beta. Every one being part of beta program will have access to source code. We want to have it first validated by a limited number of people, before opening it to everyone. Let us know if any one would like to

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2010-08-29 Thread Miles Nordin
aa == Anurag Agarwal anu...@kqinfotech.com writes: aa Every one being part of beta program will have access to aa source code ...and the right to redistribute it if they like, which I think is also guaranteed by the license. Yes, I agree a somewhat formal beta program could be smart

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2010-08-28 Thread Miles Nordin
aa == Anurag Agarwal anu...@kqinfotech.com writes: aa * Currently we are planning to do a closed beta aa * Source code will be made available with release. CDDL violation. aa * We will be providing paid support for our binary aa releases. great, so long as your ``binary

[zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2010-08-27 Thread David Magda
This just popped up: In terms of how native ZFS for Linux is being handled by [KQ Infotec], they are releasing their ported ZFS code under the Common Development Distribution License and will not be attempting to go for mainline integration. Instead, this company will just be releasing

Re: [zfs-discuss] native ZFS on Linux

2010-08-27 Thread Anurag Agarwal
Hi, Thanks for posting information about this port here. Just to add few points: * Currently we are planning to do a closed beta for this port, which is based on b121, we will be doing a proper release around end of this year, which will be based on latest build b141. If you are interested in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Jeremy peter.jer...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: On 2010-Jun-11 17:41:38 +0800, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: PP.S.: Did you know that FreeBSD _includes_ the GPLd Reiserfs in the FreeBSD kernel since a while and that nobody did complain about this, see e.g.:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sorry but your reply is completely misleading as the people who claim that there is a legal problem with having ZFS in the Linux kernel would of course also claim that Reiserfs cannot be in the FreeBSD kernel. It seems that it is a license violation

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sorry but your reply is completely misleading as the people who claim that there is a legal problem with having ZFS in the Linux kernel would of course also claim that Reiserfs cannot be in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jun-11 17:41:38 +0800, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: PP.S.: Did you know that FreeBSD _includes_ the GPLd Reiserfs in the FreeBSD kernel since a while and that nobody did complain about this, see e.g.:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am really sad to hear you saying these things since if it was all actually true, then Linux, *BSD, and Solaris distributions could not legally exist. Thankfully, only part of the above is true. If linking of independent works would

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0200 schreef Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de: The main problem with GPL related license debates seems to be that very few people did read the GPL license text. Or simply do not want to and just believe what they have been told to be the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:00:39 +0200 schreef Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de: The main problem with GPL related license debates seems to be that very few people did read the GPL license text. Or simply do not want to and just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-12 Thread andrew
On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwalanu...@kqinfotech.com wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When we posted our progress about port last year, then we came to know

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Alex Blewitt
On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote: Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is GPL licensed, but I don't think that's the case. As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no legal problem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote: Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is GPL licensed, but I don't think that's the case. As explained in depth in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/11/2010 3:03 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Alex Blewittalex.blew...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no legal problem with putting the CDDLd original ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Alex Blewitt
On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:03, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote: Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is GPL licensed, but I don't think that's the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: I don't want to restart something here on this list - I just wanted to make sure that the original developers understood that there are very possibly issues using CDDL code in conjunction with GPL'd code. If they are indeed using OpenSolaris ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com wrote: The GPL doesn't prevent you doing things. However, it does withdraw the agreement that you are permitted to copy someone else's work if you do those things. So whilst one can compile and link code together, you may not have the rights to use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Kyle McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/2010 12:32 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwalanu...@kqinfotech.com wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:41 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I am aware of (and this are many) explain, linking against an independent work creates a collective work and no derivative work. The GPL would only hit if a derivative work was created but even under US Copyright law, a derivative

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote: Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is GPL licensed, but I don't think that's the case. As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no legal problem with putting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Kyle McDonald wrote: If the developers distribute source code, which is then compiled and linked to the GPL code by the *end-user* then there are no issues, since the person combining the 2 codebases is not distributing the combined work further. This is absolutely always

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.comwrote: On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwalanu...@kqinfotech.com wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Michael Shadle
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com wrote: You are sadly mistaken. From GNU.org on license compatibilities: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html        Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0        This is a free software

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Miles Nordin
gd == Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com writes: gd There are numerous people in the community that have indicated gd that they believe that such linking creates a *derivative* gd work. Donald Becker has made this claim rather forcefully. yes, I think he has a point. The reality

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: I don't mean to be a PITA, but I'm assuming that someone lawyerly has had the appropriate discussions with the porting team about how linking against the GPL'd Linux kernel means your kernel module has to be GPL-compatible.  It doesn't matter if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: For the record, the following paragraph was incorrectly quoted by Bob. This paragraph was originally written by Erik Trimble: I don't mean to be a PITA, but I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: For the record, the following paragraph was incorrectly quoted by Bob.  This paragraph was originally It would not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-10 Thread Rodrigo E . De León Plicet
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwal anu...@kqinfotech.com wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When we posted our progress about port last year, then we came to know about the work on LLNL port. Since then we started working on to re-base

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-10 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwalanu...@kqinfotech.com wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When we posted our progress about port last year, then we came to know about the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-10 Thread zfsnoob4
I'm very excited. Throw some code up on github as soon as you are able. I'm sure there are plenty of people (me) that would like to help test it out. I've already been playing around with ZFS using zvol on Fedora 12. I would love to have a ZPL, no matter how experimental. -- This message

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-10 Thread Jason King
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 6/10/2010 9:04 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Anurag Agarwalanu...@kqinfotech.com  wrote: We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-08 Thread Hillel Lubman
A very interesting video from DebConf, which addresses CDDL and GPL incompatibility issues, and some original reasoning behind CDDL usage: http://caesar.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/2006-05-14/tower/OpenSolaris_Java_and_Debian-Simon_Phipps__Alvaro_Lopez_Ortega.ogg --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hillel Lubman shtetl...@gmail.com wrote: A very interesting video from DebConf, which addresses CDDL and GPL incompatibility issues, and some original reasoning behind CDDL usage:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-08 Thread Hillel Lubman
Joerg Schilling wrote: This viedo is not interesting, it is wrong. Danese Cooper claims incorrect things and her claims have already been verified wrong by Simon Phipps. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=55013#55008 Hope this helps. Jörg I see it's a pretty heated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-08 Thread Anurag Agarwal
Hi Brandon, Thanks for providing update on this. We at KQInfotech, initially started on an independent port of ZFS to linux. When we posted our progress about port last year, then we came to know about the work on LLNL port. Since then we started working on to re-base our changing on top Brian's

[zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-07 Thread Brandon High
http://www.osnews.com/story/23416/Native_ZFS_Port_for_Linux Native ZFS Port for Linux posted by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Jun 2010 10:15 UTC, submitted by kragil Employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have ported Sun's/Oracle's ZFS natively to Linux. Linux already had a ZFS port in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-07 Thread Fredrich Maney
Thanks for posting this, but these two sentences seem to contradict each other: Employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have ported Sun's/Oracle's ZFS natively to Linux. The ZFS Posix Layer has not been implemented yet, therefore mounting file systems is not yet possible Not to be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-07 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Fredrich Maney fredrichma...@gmail.com wrote: Not to be too harsh, but as long as you can't mount filesystems, it seems to just be hype/vaporware to me. It's a big step in the right direction. You can still use zvols to create ext3 filesystems, and use the zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-07 Thread Hillel Lubman
Native ZFS for Linux Very good to see that there is such effort in progress. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss