I got a taste of ZFS with Solaris and PC-BSD, and I must say, I can't get that taste out of my mouth!
While I found PC-BSD, as a whole, to be relatively immature as a usable desktop OS (a great effort, though, not quite there yet), and OpenSolaris to be the same, only with surprising less ZFS capability using the native installer, the BEST thing about using both of these OSes was getting to try out ZFS. It is AWESOME! But, I guess htat's why this bug exists. So, I guess there are a few options, all of which will take a lot of time and effort. 1. Somehow make GPL and CDDL work together (not likely). 2. Create your own implementation of ZFS written under the GPLvX...This may have legal ramifications of its own, since maybe this would violate patents in the ZFS specification? 3. Create a similar, competing FS that can do all, most, or more of the COOL things ZFS can, but designed and created under a GPL friendly license. >From what I remember, there are some file systems currently in development or some level of release that have goals similar to ZFS, but without corporate support (like Sun backing ZFS). I doubt they will ever be ready before something better exists (maybe options 1 or 2). I could be wrong, though. So, it looks like a pretty "not so good" for this happening, but I support this "bug"(/feature) request, and I admire its similarity to bug #1 (If you don't know what that is, please look it up!) Also, what about the license compatibility of having NTFS drivers running on the linux kernel? Surely, if that can be accomplished, they can make a driver fore ZFS. And the point about NVidia drivers, surely their license is more restrictive than the CDDL. Just my thoughts in support of solving this bug ;-) Cheers, --mobrien118 -- Add native ZFS to Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202952 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
