Hi, ZFS provides many more advanced features than any other filesystems available to Linux users, and it's proven in production environment for years. There is btrfs under heavy development to provide similar functions, while the way is still quite long to go, at the same time native ZFS on Linux (ZoL, [1]) is a low hanging food for users. To achieve this target we have two things to do: make zfs actually work on a Linux distribution; make it better integrated into the system, pushing its higher-level functions more handy to end users. I believe when btrfs is finally landed with most of planned features, it can benefit a lot from such work.
There is no Linux distribution currently provide ZFS support so far, and I would like to propose such a project to make Debian the first project to integrate it. As for license concerns, ZoL is distributed in the form of two Linux kernel modules, spl and zfs. The first one is Solaris Porting Layer, licensed under GPL-2+, providing a set of system calls that is compatible to Solaris; and the other one is the actual stuff of ZFS, licensed under CDDL. In this way, both of the modules can be legally distributed using dkms or pre-built binary modules. [1]http://zfsonlinux.org -- Regards, Aron Xu _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
