On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:44:59AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > 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.
I'm extremely interested in this effort, and would love such a project > > 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. Are we sure about that? This seems like a tough call. I'm tempted to call SPL irrelevant on this (I mean, I don't know how it works, but if it's sharing memory with the CDDL, they're a combined work. *can* we distribute it? We should ask the FTP* folks about this IMHO. I know there was concern about it never being able to become part of the Linux tree, and I do understand this is a different problem than that (well, mostly). > > > [1]http://zfsonlinux.org > > > -- > Regards, > Aron Xu > > _______________________________________________ > Soc-coordination mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <[email protected]> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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